Category: Conference

The number of patents that are potentially or actually essential for the implementation of a technology standard is increasing dramatically and exacerbating the challenges that already exist today in dealing with such property rights and especially in ...

Blockchain technology has the disruptive potential to transform many important industries from healthcare to finance. This technology is commonly associated with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Blockchain is ...

„Challenges of digitalization for IP departments” was the title of Beat Weibel’s lecture at the VPP spring conference in Stuttgart. He describes a future scenario for IP work under the framework conditions of VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, compl ...

This event was the first conference on patenting AI technologies held at one of the major patent offices for China, Japan, South Korea, and the USA. The current topic attracted more than 350 participants from industry, academia, user associations, pat ...

With a European overview on best practice on IP-management issues in entrepreneurial environments, this conference is unique.

The celebration was held in the WIPO headquarters building in Geneva, at September 21, 2017. Distinguished speakers gave insights in current developments of trademark management, free & open source software (“FOSS”) challenges and education/career ...

Siemens is not only of the most active patent applicants in Germany, they are a leading company in digitalization. With approx. 80 bn. in revenues and a true global footprint, Siemens develops path breaking solutions in many fields of the digital tran ...

More than 120 participants discussed the new challenges for management in the context of the digitization in Strasbourg. The revolutionary changes are affecting all institutions within innovation systems, like industries, universities and public insti ...

Speakers from Google, Philips, BASF, ABB, Air Liquide, WIPO, Universities of Gothenbourg, Boulder Colorado, Washington, Lausanne, Bordeaux, Paris and Surrey will present insights to the digital transformation and its consequences to the  management of ...

In addition to the digitization of production, Industry 4.0 is also about the digitization of product development. What should be considered when networking and creating platforms? How does the interaction between product development and production ta ...