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: โ€œWhere can you be sure not to miss any important IP management content?โ€. 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:

IP in the digital transformation

Are you looking for a ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ˆ๐ ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐Ÿค”? Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen at the moment – ๐ข๐ญ’๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐Ÿ˜ฎ!

๐Ÿ“ฃ ๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ. ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ? ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ? ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐?

Creativity

Is that caught on camera ๐Ÿค”? This is the first SORA commercial for Toys”R”Us! ๐‚๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ – ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ˆ๐ ๐Ÿง!

๐Ÿ“ข ๐€๐ฌ ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ž, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ, ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐›๐š๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ. ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ž๐ฌ?

IP in a VUCA world

One should not confuse ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Ÿค”! ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ is becoming increasingly difficult in a ๐•๐”๐‚๐€ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐. Can ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐“๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ help ๐Ÿง?

๐Ÿ“ข ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ. ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฌ. ๐’๐จ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐๐š๐ฉ๐ญ.

AI supported invention processes

How well can ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ, patent portfolio analysis and ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ today ๐Ÿค”? Check out our workshop and case study ๐Ÿง.

This also fits with the current decision of the Federal Court of Justice in Germany on the DABUS case; one of the protagonists, Dr. Malte Kรถllner, (university lecturer in this course), gave a public lecture and explained the decision.

Agile IP management

Are you already ๐š๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž? Agile is more or less the ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž of classic process organization? ๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ ๐Ÿค”? Use the ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿง!

๐Ÿ“ฃ ๐€๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ “๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐›๐จ๐š๐ซ๐”. ๐€๐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐ง๐ž. ๐ƒ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ – ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ˆ๐ ๐š๐๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ: ๐ˆ๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ฌ ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž.

Whom to follow

Sebastian Goebel shares on his LinkedIn feed all the latest information on the role of AI for patents and patent law. This includes an overview on the opportunities and challenges of using AI tools in daily work processes as a patent professional. He also shares further information from theย I3PM Committee for AI&IP, which he co-chairs.

In her LinkedIn feed, Smita Choudhary provides insights into the connection between innovation and intellectual property. She does this by sharing inspiring innovation stories from real inventors and companies that have mastered innovation and IP protection. A particular focus of her feed is on biotechnology and digitalisation. Finally, she supports the IP Business Academy as an ambassador.

The highlights of the revised Patent Law Implementing Rules of China

The new Rules for the Implementation of Patent Law (hereinafter referred to as โ€œthe Rulesโ€) came into force on January 20, 2024. There are many amendments in the new Rules, and I have summarized the need-to-know points for your reference.

IP experts behind the case: Mark Carmody & OncoMark

OncoMark, an Ireland-based biotechnology start-up, is pioneer in developing a multi-parameter prognostic test named OncoMasTR for diagnosis of breast cancer. The OncoMasTR was developed by collaboration between Prof. Adrian Bracken at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Prof. William Gallagher at University College Dublin (UCD) in 2012. Poorti Joshi interviewed the patent attorney behind the case Mark Carmody on the role of IP for start-ups in diagnostic technologies.

The value of data

More and more companies are adopting data-driven business models and are recognising the value that data brings to their operations. This also creates a new need to valuate the companies’ data in order to better understand the value of the data assets they own, share or transfer.

Please read the interview with Kevin Garwood, graduate of our IP Valuation Course at the CEIPI, on the value of data and the need to know it.

Process Management

In businesses, like in every organization, where many people are working together in different roles, work is distributed between the individual employees and departments in the form of processes. These processes are needed that everyone fulfils their role in the business, in sales, in product development in IP etc. Since the degree of specialization in the workforce is ever increasing this separation of roles within a company and the creation of processes to organize the work between the different departments becomes more and more important. Without good and well-defined processes effective and efficient workflows within a company would not exist.