Category: Companies

Netflix Inc. is one of the most successful entertainment media companies of all times. Netflix Inc. originally began its ascent in 1998 by providing services to customers through means of mailing out physical copies of movies, shows, video games and o ...

The Master class of MIPLM (Master of Intellectual Property Law and Management) in February 2021 was about the patenting use cases. How to design use cases to make them patentable? Many people are confused of use cases and business models. A use case d ...

In the weekly IP business talk on LinkedIn the topic of the 17th of February was the IP strategy at Thyssenkrupp. The talk started with an introduction of a case study example from the stair lift business of Thyssenkrupp, which is also part of the IP ...

The way how companies generate value changed a lot during the last decade due to the power of the digital transformation and the emergence of digital platforms. Those platforms are driven by network effects, where each network partner creates value in ...

Kleenex is synonymous with paper tissues, Aspirin with pain killers, Scotch with adhesive tape, and BIC with correction pens. In fact, these brands have lent their names to entire product categories, evoking direct associations with quality and functi ...

The role of IP and with it IP strategies have shifted dramatically during the last decades. Today, IP is in many cases not used anymore to keep potential competitors out of the own market. In the contrary, IP is licensed out to other companies to help ...

New research project at the MIPLM: Digitalization of the wind turbine industry – it continues to grow at rapid speed. Many competitors in the market are promoting new services that come from the interconnectivity and digitalization of individual ...

There is a new research project at the MIPLM: “Digital transformation in the regulated healthcare industry: How to exclusify the digital consumer health care journey?” Ping An Healthcare’s “Good Doctor” now has over 300 million users and is the world’ ...

Now Daimler received the fourth patent injunction in only three months for its connect car concept. This time the regional court in Munich says that the carmaker must buy operating licenses from Nokia to use mobile communication technology in its vehi ...

In a case decided under the ACR (Accelerated Case Resolution) regime at the TTAB (Trademark Trial and Appeal Board) Lucasfilm’s opposition against “Millennial Falcon” was sustained for live entertainment and production services. The Board said that Mi ...