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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 ...

By Magda Voltolini, Dr. Naceur Tounekti, and Steve Harris This article was originally published in les Nouvelles – December 2023. Summary The goal of this article is to provide considerations for identifying “green academic patents” using artifi ...

IP business academy: Patent applications worldwide have surged the last decade, especially in China and in digital technologies. How can patent search tools assist companies to deal with the challenges of rising patent numbers? Stefan Brehm: China&#82 ...

Trade secrets: Trade secrets constitute an important part of a company’s IP portfolio. And they are generally any valuable business information not known outside of the company. Specifically, for such information to be considered a trade secret, it mu ...

The world is becoming more and more globalized and especially in the area of digital inventions, where software based solutions can easily be sold worldwide, companies are increasingly forced to deal with the peculiarities of different markets. And th ...

With the emergence of digital technologies also inventions made by generative AI came into the focus of researchers and academics alike. Nevertheless, there were for a long time no judgements by courts regarding how to deal with inventions made by gen ...

Effective process management can help organizations align their business efforts, create efficiencies within workflows and reduce redundancies in operations. There are many strategies process managers can use to improve productivity and streamline pro ...

Which topics are important to you? IPBA: In your articles you talked about different technology areas from smartphones to skis – what technology areas are you interested in from an IP perspective? Andreas Sætre Hanssen: For me this is twofold. Firstly ...

In a modern knowledge driven economy, it becomes more and more important not only to do high level research, but to further identify the most relevant ideas for innovation and technology transfer. With this also smaller economies can use the chances o ...

A study on the “digitalization of client relationships, IP awareness building and business development via social media for IP experts” has been running at the CEIPI IP Business Academy since summer 2022. Currently, we see that the IP system is affect ...