The digital transformation affects all business eco-systems, including the paper industry. The traditional use of paper is being replaced by digital solutions, in newspapers and journals, in computer printouts and in payments: paper is on the decline ...

The revolution in the kitchen took place in 2014: Vorwerk brought a completely modernized Thermomix to the market with a chip that displays digital recipes including the necessary preparation steps, which the device takes over directly, on a touch dis ...

The central question of this research project is: How do digital inventions come about? Under the keyword Industry 4.0, digital transformation is taking place across industry borders in business and this makes the ability to patent digital inventions ...

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 ...