The German gas company Linde and the direct US competitor Praxair reached an agreement in December on the merger. Linde’s head of IP Jacob Eisenberg reports at the master’s course in IP management at CEIPI in January in Strasbourg on how IP mana ...

Europe’s market leader in agricultural engineering, the company Claas from Harsewinkel, has successfully faced the change in agricultural machinery technology. With sales of 3.8 billion €, Claas is one of the leading companies in their industry ...

An analysis by the University of Mannheim shows that systematic patent management in knowledge-intensive industries such as ITC leads to greater innovation success. The degree of professionalism in patent management and the existence of a documented p ...

In a very entertaining and impressive way, the two speakers Kai Schäffner, President of Vorwerk USA and Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer, Managing Director Wurzer & Kollegen, described the success story of the new Thermomix TM5 in the Marketing Club Mun ...

In addition to the digitization of production, Industry 4.0 is also about the digitization of product development. What should be considered when networking and creating platforms? How does the interaction between product development and production ta ...

As the “Brand of the Century”, the ABUS brand stands for German quality in security technology, as well as for innovation and design. This is what the awards from Abus in recent years stand for, e.g. the “Most Innovative Brand Award” and the “Red Dot ...

When developing the next generation of optical sensors, IFM, a leading company in sensor technology, integrated its innovation and IP management in order to support the strategic goals, to focus more on IP activities and, last but not least, to make s ...

The multifunctional kitchen machine Thermomix is a huge success for Vorwerk. In a single financial year, the Wuppertal-based company was able to look forward to an increase in sales of over two million units. The Thermomix connected to the Internet is ...