Category: Publications & Events

On Tuesday 13th September the High-growth technology business community (HTBC) initiative organizes the seminar on “Software and patents in medtech: boosting your growth as SME”. The HTBC event is powered by the EPO in cooperation with the CEIPI IP bu ...

Dr. Eiselt, you are an experienced IP manager who has also worked in several international companies. Why do you think IP management is becoming increasingly important for companies? As a holder of a doctorate in physics and a long-time executive, I a ...

First stop in an expensive patent dispute July 1st. 2022, the Oslo District Court ruled in favor of Norwegian bindings and ski-companies Rottefella and Madshus in their patent case against Amer Sports (Salomon and Atomic). This very Norwegian case, co ...

Mr. Kopf, you are an experienced patent attorney who is also involved a lot in international patent litigation, especially for large multinational corporations. Why do you think IP management is becoming increasingly important for companies and also f ...

The Metaverse hast just begun to emerge. It iterates further by placing everyone inside an embodied or virtual 3D version of the internet and on a nearly unending basis. In other words, we will constantly be within the internet rather than have access ...

New EU requirements June 7th, 2022, EU adopted USB-C as a mandatory common standard for all mobile chargers. By autumn 2024, USB-C (Universal Serial Bus C) ports will be the standard for all new mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones and ...

The digital transformation not only leads to completely new players coming together, but also to more and more new companies expanding the competition to established companies. As a result, every entrepreneur has to face the digital transformation. DI ...

As you know, the world is in a constant state of change – ever faster, more interdisciplinary and more complex. This does not stop at the handling of intellectual property. On the contrary, the IP landscapes are becoming increasingly dense, more intra ...

Today’s firms are built on intangible capital, with assets in the form of software algorithms, brand, customer data, business plans, engineering specifications, product formulas and organizational capital. The Economist Intelligence Unit Survey Report ...

All IP is not valuable IP. In industry there are three essential components to valuable technical IP, i.e., Technology, Legal and Market. The latter one happens to be perhaps the prime reason why IP rights exist in the first place. As seen in FIG. 1, ...