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Patent rally for digital payment systems: Bosch and Siemens are part of the patent war about machines which buy and pay

In the last year 77% of all patent applications for the IOTA protocol were published. IOTA is a reference software to enable secure communication and payment between two machines in the Internet of Things – IoT. If machines and communicating devices c ...

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Agile IP design at Hansgrohe: Digitizing a brand steeped in tradition with RainTunes

RainTunes is designed to create a holistic showering experience. It is focusing on the individual needs of human beings and its mood. Hansgrohe developed the product with experts from different fields to create digital showering scenarios which are ba ...

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Patent Strategies for IoT-Based Business Models: A SME Perspective

Digitalization is a game-changer in each and every industry. Sooner or later the business eco-systems underly a digital transformation. This tendency has strong consequences for IP- and especially patent strategies for affected enterprises. In this LE ...

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Nike Blockchain Patent Strategy: CryptoKicks against counterfeiting

The U.S. multinational corporation that is engaged in design, manufacturing and marketing of sports footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories, Nike, patented ‘CryptoKicks’ to track counterfeits. The company got granting from the US Patent and Trade ...

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Nokia sues Daimler in Germany: Next round in the patent war for the Internet of Things – Justice Minister announces key issues paper

The start of the “Connected Cars” complex of proceedings at the Munich Regional Court began in June 2019. In detail, it concerns a patent for the reliability of the transmission of data and Daimler is accused of having installed this technology in a l ...

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Beat Weibel: Siemens develops IP strategy for digital business model protection

Chief IP Counsel of Siemens Beat Weibel sees the necessity for new IP strategies within digitization. Together with Rudolf Freytag, Head of Licensing and CEO of Siemens Technology Accelerator GmbH, he published a paper “Why Digitalization Needs Value- ...

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Regional Court Munich: Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger apps violate Blackberry patent – patent wars in eco-systems

This news hit Germany like a bomb. While many companies in this country still do not even know that apps can be protected by patents, the Munich Regional Court ruled on December 6, 2019 against the online network Facebook with its chat apps WhatsApp a ...

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Digitization of water: How IP-design is used to protect Apps and Eco-System for LUQEL– case study

LUQEL revolutionize the way people drink water, thanks to sustainable products that individually adapt to the digital lifestyle and requirements of each person – with fascinatingly precise and user-friendly technology and design. The LUQEL digital eco ...

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Bosch is building a new AI campus and is involved in IP design for digital patents

The 100 million € investment made by Bosch for its own AI campus in Tübingen shows how much AI skills are now viewed as a question of survival. The Internet of Things is changing the world at a dramatic rate. Bosch aims to play a leading role worldwid ...

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Will Airbus become the Google of the aviation industry? The aviation eco-system as an example of the digital transformation

The fight for data sovereignty and thus industrial added value from data is getting tougher and what is happening in the civil aviation industry can become a blueprint for many other industries, according to the German Federal Government. For some tim ...

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