As you know, the world is in a constant state of change – ever faster, more interdisciplinary and more complex. This does not stop at the handling of intellectual property. On the contrary, the IP landscapes are becoming increasingly dense, more intra ...

Today’s firms are built on intangible capital, with assets in the form of software algorithms, brand, customer data, business plans, engineering specifications, product formulas and organizational capital. The Economist Intelligence Unit Survey Report ...

All IP is not valuable IP. In industry there are three essential components to valuable technical IP, i.e., Technology, Legal and Market. The latter one happens to be perhaps the prime reason why IP rights exist in the first place. As seen in FIG. 1, ...

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 LEGO group is a Danish toy company, which was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. He was a carpenter who initially started with the production of wooden toys for children, but introduced in 1947 the now famous plastic bricks. In 2015 the Gro ...

As a result of the debate about patent value, patent valuation, and the usage of patents as assets, value-orientated patent portfolios were developed in the 2000s. The basic concept of a dedicated value chain for a patent is that a patent can be seen ...

Since 2020 the DIN 77006 and ISO 56005 are in effect. They are quality standards to design digital use cases and other solutions like apps, customer journeys and business models to make them patentable and free of third-party rights. This university s ...

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with approximately 16,000 employees, operations in more than 40 countries worldwide and a sales presence in more than 120 countries. With more than a ...

With the increasing digitalization and dematerialization of the economy, also the value of the so called intangible assets becomes more important for decision makers. The intangible assets comprise every company asset, with cannot be touched and is no ...

The IP-Management program at CEIPI is by far the most successful executive management program in IP in Europe. Since 2005, CEIPI has offered a comprehensive IP Management education, for which it develops case studies with C-Level executives and heads ...