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Schneider from Hessen is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of processing machines for spectacles and precision optics. Schneider is an innovation driver in the highly complex free-form processing of glass lenses and the associated process ...

Claas, Viessmann, Wissensfabrik and the television format Quarks & Co were awarded Germany’s oldest innovation prize on April 7th in Munich. The prizes were accepted by Helmut Claas and Dr. Nathalie von Siemens for the knowledge factory, who ...

At the Rudolf Diesel reception on the occasion of the award of the Rudolf diesel medals on April 7, 2017, Microsoft presented the HoloLens, the next generation of the human-machine interface. The participants were able to immerse themselves in the wor ...

On 23 March 2017, Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Kettner, Group Senior Director Innovation Excellence, reported on the integration of the IP and innovation process landscape at Wilo during his dinner speech at the Master’s Program for Intellectual Property L ...

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 ...

Which role will IP play as a competitive instrument for the German industry in digitalization and in the Internet of Things? How do technology companies in this country have to position themselves with their IP and IP management in a globalized race f ...

Europe’s market leader in agricultural engineering, the company Claas from Harsewinkel, has successfully faced the change in agricultural machinery technology. With sales of 3.8 billion €, Claas is one of the leading companies in their industry ...

In the IP community, the 360 ° IP strategy with the case studies on the implementation of the IP design approach at the companies Vorwerk, Stöbich, Abus, Wilo, IFM, etc. was very well received. Some of the readers’ opinions are summarized here. ...

An analysis by the University of Mannheim shows that systematic patent management in knowledge-intensive industries such as ITC leads to greater innovation success. The degree of professionalism in patent management and the existence of a documented p ...

In a very entertaining and impressive way, the two speakers Kai Schäffner, President of Vorwerk USA and Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer, Managing Director Wurzer & Kollegen, described the success story of the new Thermomix TM5 in the Marketing Club Mun ...