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Smart Licensing Models: Why Strong IP Deals Depend on Structure, Not Templates

Many companies invest heavily in technology, patents, software, brands, or know-how, yet underestimate the document that often determines whether these assets truly generate value: the license agreement. A licensing contract is not an administrative a ...

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Making Technical IP Expertise Visible: What VOSSIUS and HGF Show About Digital Marketing for IP Law Firms

Digital marketing for IP law firms works best when technical competence becomes easy for the market to recognise. This is especially difficult in patent work, because much of the most valuable expertise is hidden inside drafting choices, opposition st ...

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What Makes Digital Marketing for IP Law Firms Work: Powell Gilbert and Carpmaels & Ransford

Digital marketing for IP law firms works best when it does not look like marketing. It works when the visible communication of a firm reflects a strategic market position that already exists in the work, the people, the cases and the architecture of t ...

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What Makes Digital Marketing for IP Law Firms Work: VOSSIUS and HOFFMANN EITLE

Digital marketing for IP law firms is not only about attracting attention. It is about helping the market understand what a firm should be chosen for. Expertise becomes commercially relevant when it is visible, structured and connected to a concrete c ...

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Trade Secrets: Why Documentation Determines Whether You Have a Case at All

For many companies, their most valuable assets are not patents or trademarks, but confidential knowledge. Manufacturing processes, algorithms, customer data, or internal strategies often define their competitive edge. Unlike registered IP rights, trad ...

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AI as a Value Driver for IP Law Firms: Key Insights from the Live Interview with Johannes Ernicke

In the recorded live interview with host Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer, Johannes Ernicke, Patent Attorney and Managing Director of patenza, took a differentiated look at how artificial intelligence is currently used in IP law firms and where its real, st ...

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Extention of the Call for IP Subject Matter Experts in Europe

The highly succesful Call for IP Subject Matter Experts in Europe got extended throughout 2026 and the IP Business Academy continues to look for IP experts who are supporting the users of the IP system in Europe. The IP Business Academy emerges as a p ...

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Designing Around as a Growth Engine: How Nicos Raftis Builds Digital Visibility and Systematic Business Development on IPBA Connect

In the middle of most complex development projects sits a simple commercial truth: teams need options. When a competitor’s patent blocks a promising concept, progress stalls, budgets bleed, and a launch window narrows. Nicos Raftis has built his pract ...

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When Secrecy Enters the Courtroom: What Judges Really Expect in Trade Secret Cases

Trade secrets have become the quiet heavyweights of IP. They are the formulas, process know-how, customer lists, pricing logics and data structures that keep many businesses ahead. But the moment these assets are at stake in court, one brutal reality ...

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Turning Non-Core IP into Impact: Out-Licensing Through Smart Organization, Culture and Licensing Strategy

When Sonja London talks about out-licensing, she does not start with contracts. She starts with timing, value and culture. As immediate Past President of LESI and founder of Fearless IP, her perspective is rooted in operational reality: most companies ...

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