Digital patents are central strategic instruments in digitization. They secure access to profitable positions in digitally transforming eco-systems. Regardless of whether it is 5G, IoT, AI, blockchain, cyber-physical systems or big data applications i ...

Digitalization causes a complete paradigm shift of production and innovation options. In a digital environment, innovation systems and management of technology face new challenges. Product development and engineering departments across the globe need ...

The most important result of a study by the German Institute for Invention on the role of IP in Industry 4.0 are the challenges that medium-sized companies have when dealing with digital patents. The inventive results of software and digital experts o ...

Digital patents are increasingly relevant for infringement cases on digital use cases like “presenting advertising in an interactive service” and “improved navigation using bookmarks”. These technologies were patented by IBM many years ago and now, af ...

The approach for Agriculture 4.0 is identical to that of Industry 4.0; in both cases the aim is to intelligently connecting production processes and control them based on real society, customer, and market interests. Under the title “The role of IP in ...

The classical business model in the lighting industry was for a long time to sell LED lights and other luminants at a retailer. This has changed with the development of new business models, where products are leased but bought. The new type of busines ...

On April 30 2020, a seminar on the subject of „Patentschutz digitaler Lösungen für KMU: von der App bis zum Geschäftsmodell“ will be organized by the Europe Enterprise Network (EEN) and the Standortagentur Tirol. The protection of intellectual propert ...

Customer demands and digitalization will transform aerospace over the next decade. With a dinner speech from Mr. Christian Grünberger, head of IP management, the participants of MIPLM made a deep dive within the digital transformation of this fascinat ...

Digital transformation is permeating more and more Eco-Systems with a dramatic speed and completeness. But it is not only the permeation – digital transformation is also a booster for meshing the horizontal and vertical integration of complementary Ec ...

Across many industries, a rising tide of VUCA-characteristic, like volatility, uncertainty and business complexity is shaking markets and changing the nature and rules of competition. VUCA is an acronym with made its way into the business lexicon. The ...