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Practical Question Franz B. Wittwer: Where Is the Real IP Control Point in Connected MedTech Systems?

Connected MedTech is changing the logic of IP strategy. In many digital health systems, the decisive value is no longer located in one visible product. It emerges across several layers: sensors, signal capture, data processing, clinical interpretation ...

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The MedTech Strategy Gap: What Connected Healthcare Companies Need, and What IP Advice Still Often Fails to Integrate

A growing number of signals from the MedTech and digital health market point to a structural mismatch. Companies are no longer developing isolated medical devices. They are building connected health systems: devices linked to software, sensors, health ...

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Practical Question MedTech: When Does Diagnostic Data Become the Strategic IP Control Point with Gabriel Zimmerman

Data-driven diagnostics are changing the way MedTech companies must think about IP strategy. In many digital health applications, the decisive value is no longer located only in the physical device, the sensor unit or the user interface. It often emer ...

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MedTech & Digital Health Systems in motion: Why IP Is Becoming a Decision System for Connected Healthcare Innovation

MedTech and digital health are no longer separate innovation fields. Medical devices, software, data processing, connected sensors, digital platforms, clinical workflows and European enforcement structures are beginning to form one strategic environme ...

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Trade secrets v. patents – conflict of IP protection with AI in healthcare wearable devices

Digital technology and AI have hijacked all the industries, and the healthcare sector is not an exception. AI has helped in the evolution of the digital healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. This has expanded the scope of using AI in managing and pr ...

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How to protect your MedTech software with patents?

The MedTech industry went through hard times after the end of the COVID pandemic, but recovered in 2024 and is expected to grow again by more than 5 % annually. Therefore, the number of new especially digital products entering the market is expected t ...

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Patent challenges for Software as medical Device (SaMD)

With the increasing digitalisation of all aspects of our lives and the high level of adoption of smartphones and smart watches, also the use of digital devices to monitor and improve our health is ever growing. And this does not only cover the private ...

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Functional food and the digital revolution: MIPLM case study IP strategy development

People are increasingly looking for foods which solve their health problems. In recent years, manufacturers have developed products with additives they claim to be beneficial for people’s health and wellbeing. This has resulted in a new category ...

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Job offer Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH: Patent Engineer

Erbe Elektromedizin GmbH was founded in 1851 in Tuebingen, Germany, and has today more than 1.700 employees and 21 subsidiaries, which supply over 110 countries with their products. In the 5th generation, the family-owned company develops, produces an ...

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Protecting digital customer journeys in the medical industry with IP-design: Case study Ping An

Background Ping An Ping An Healthcare’s “Good Doctor” now has over 225 million users and is the world’s leading online healthcare eco-system platform. The disruptive digital business model of Ping An Good Doctor (PAGD) is very interesting – it is the ...

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