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Competitor Teardowns—using Patents

Competitor teardowns are nothing new—you get hands on your competitor’s hot new product and strip it back to its components. You can work through compromises made, corners cut, opportunities missed. Component performance, suppliers, and costing ...

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AI applications in industry: Microsoft Road Show with AI along the patent value chain

On June 25, the Microsoft AI Roadshow was held in Stuttgart to show the potential of artificial intelligence in a wide variety of applications in industry, from the manufacturing industry to automobile production. The aim was to exchange ideas with ma ...

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A New Era of Interaction with Machines: The Impact of ChatGPT on Patent Attorneys

The release of ChatGPT to the general public in November 2022 marked the beginning of a new era in the way we interact with machines. Suddenly, it seems, computers are able to understand natural language. No longer mechanically and rule based as befor ...

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Efficiency gains in the generation of IP portfolios with AI

Current reports comparing the patent activities between different regions on an international level showed, that there are significant regional variations on the size and quality of the generated patent portfolios. The leading science and tech cluster ...

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What are the trends in the chemical industry regarding generative AI?

The chemical industry was facing multiple crises during the last years, starting with the COVID pandemic and the related low oil prices, followed by high inflation and recession. To escape this volatile situation companies are exploring new trends for ...

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How programming robots for AI-assisted patent drafting sheds light on incompatible prosecution and litigation standards in the US and UPC Land

The landscape of patent litigation is markedly different between the United States (US) and other jurisdictions, especially the territory that is covered by the Unified Patent Court (UPC), which is dubbed as “UPC Land” because of its unique features w ...

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Top 3 misconceptions about AI that IP practitioners should be aware of – Job offer Patent Engineer

AI (Artificial Intelligence) has been part of my career for almost two decades now. Initially in my electrical engineering studies and in scientific research, in software development, and then of course, mostly as inventions to be patented. In the fol ...

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Value creation with AI: Times are changing – through ChatGPT

Currently, the AI world is changing at a breath-taking speed, making it difficult to comprehend the basic dynamics. In fact, the disruptive power of so-called foundation models (sometimes also base models) is already visible today and can hardly be ig ...

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Eligibility of Chinese Patent Applications in the Field of Algorithms and Software

In addition to the foreign applicants who have been constantly investing in China’s patent assets, recent years have also witnessed some big Chinese software companies applying for a large number of invention patents containing algorithms or business ...

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Did they really patent this use case? – Example: Streaming industry

The global video streaming market size is expected to reach in 2022 USD 932 billion. The growing fondness towards streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and others can have a tremendous impact on the market growth in the forthcoming year ...

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