Many IP experts in the IP community at I3PM, the HTB-EPO initiative, and other global IP offices and institutions in national and regional innovation systems have asked Prof. Alexander Wurzer: “where can you be sure not to miss any important IP management content”. In fact, you have to follow a number of interesting feeds  to really keep up with the global developments around IP management. To make this easier he decided to offer his own personal newsletter for IP management. Here you can find the last issues in the archive and also subscribe. A fresh read with all the important IP Management content will be sent to the subscribers every second Thursday at 7.00 (CET), so you can start your day informed.

The next Newsletter will cover the following topics:

FinTech Patent Strategy

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 😮: Apple is on the path to become the world’s largest FinTech 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 🧐!

Apple has very deep pockets to try a lot of things, and that includes leveraging its trusted brand to become a financial services provider. Apple has a tendency to develop products and businesses that can be scaled – like with the App-Store where Apple gets 30% of every dollar spent and now has hassle with the antitrust regulators.

The perfect LinkedIn post

How do you make the perfect LinkedIn post 🤔? Does this even exist – 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐏 🧐? Yes there is – and there are lots of 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 🤗!

📢 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐧 – 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 – 𝐬𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞.

AI content and copyright

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🤔? Yes and no – 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 on the country at the moment 🤔!

A uniform, internationally coordinated regulation would therefore be important in order to create legal certainty, make global competition fair and promote innovation in the field of AI. 📢 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈-𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 – 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐈.

 Business models for music

Where will the 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 🧐? Where do most young people (consumers) discover music in the world 🤔? Exactly: 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 😮!

📢 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐏 – 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲.

Creative leadership with design thinking

Why is it so difficult for many (𝐈𝐏) 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬 🤔? Whether as a consultant or in a company: 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬 🧐.

Creative Leadership is a leadership style that focuses on creativity, innovation and adapting to change – what is so needed today. However, capable experts in particular often find it difficult to take on leadership roles.

 Whom to follow

Erica Smith provides you on her LinkedIn feed with an overview of current IP trends in the music industry, such as issues around AI-generated music, and highlights the opportunities for artists to utilise IP to protect their business interests. She also supports other creative industries in the Caribbean and beyond with interviews and mentoring activities.

Tudor Codrin Enea shows on his LinkedIn feed the latest developments regarding the connection between intellectual property and AI as well as the latest court rulings in this area worldwide. He also covers other digital topics, such as the role of intellectual property in video games and the future of the metaverse. He also supports the IP Business Academy as an ambassador in awareness-raising activities.

IP, Innovation, SDG, ESG & Sustainability Key Linkages

Innovation, Intellectual Property (IP), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), and sustainability are now very important interconnecting concepts in both the business, corporate & academic worlds. Their proper management should support creating positive changes globally and also help to address various global climate and IP challenges.

How to optimize your scope of patent protection? – Method Steps performed by Users

Drafting patent applications is a challenging task anyway, but it becomes even more difficult if the requirements of different jurisdictions should be considered. A drafting style working for one jurisdiction may cause major problems in other jurisdictions. Many problems could be avoided if they were considered at the drafting stage.

What is the future of AI?

AI may develop in the future even further to a human like super AI, but already today generative AI can be used in many industries to solve problems, which were hard or impossible to solve before and to make existing processes much more efficient. For example, in the chemical industry generative AI can assist R&D by predicting the most promising drug or material candidates with the needed properties.

Additionally, literature searches to identify relevant information for the creation of new experimental designs and identification of new chemicals as well as the interpretation of the vast amounts of created data during R&D are often still done with relatively simple digital means. In all those use cases the power of large language models has a huge potential of raising efficiency and effectiveness.

Types of Innovation

To understand architectural and component innovation, it is helpful to distinguish between the product as a whole (system) and the individual parts of the product (components). An electric ceiling fan, for example, consists of the following main components: blade, motor that drives the blade, blade guard, control system, and mechanical housing. The overall architecture of the product lays out how the components will work together. Taken together, a fan’s architecture and its components result in a system for moving air inside a room.