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Background Question 1: We are currently seeing a continuously accelerating digital transformation in the IP system. Especially in dealing with the stakeholders of the IP system as well as in the relationship and communication between attorneys and cli ...

Many IP experts in the IP community at I3PM, the HTB-EPO initiative, and other global IP offices and institutions in national and regional innovation systems have asked Prof. Alexander Wurzer: “where can you be sure not to miss any important IP manage ...

IP-Managers in large international companies often find that the grant rates of their patents are significantly higher in their own jurisdiction than in other jurisdictions. One of the reasons for this effect is that the patent applications are drafte ...

How do you know if your company has an IP strategy? A basic IP strategy widely used by startup companies is “Critical Feature Denial”. In brief, this strategy requires that you identify at least one, and preferably several, critical features necessary ...

Background Question 1: We are currently seeing a continuously accelerating digital transformation in the IP system. Especially in dealing with the stakeholders of the IP system as well as in the relationship and communication between attorneys and cli ...

Many IP experts in the IP community at I3PM, the HTB-EPO initiative, and other global IP offices and institutions in national and regional innovation systems have asked Prof. Alexander Wurzer: “where can you be sure not to miss any important IP manage ...

The idea to use computers as supporting tools in drug discovery and design is not new. Already in 1962 chemists were developing so called quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) techniques, which could be used for drug design. Those techni ...

By Ines Duhanic and Jörn Plettig Intellectual property law plays a crucial role in fostering innovation within the European Union (EU). It provides a legal framework for inventors and creators to protect their ideas, incentivizing them to bring new in ...

Current reports comparing the patent activities between different regions on an international level showed, that there are significant regional variations on the size and quality of the generated patent portfolios. The leading science and tech cluster ...

By Håvard Almås and Magnus Hakvåg For the uninitiated looking into the topic of IP and IPR, it may come off as vast and impenetrable – a huge, jargon-filled field that is just about impossible to get into. However, in most cases, the reality is much s ...