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Upcoming OFB Fireside Chat: The Use of AI for IP Issues

From industry signals to focused conversations Corporate IP management is changing under pressure from several directions at once. Technological acceleration, increasing information volumes, tighter resources, and rising expectations from business fun ...

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Practical IP Question IIoT Achim Tappe: When Smart Factory Platforms Become Industrial Control Points

Industrial IoT is increasingly becoming a question of platform control. In many connected manufacturing systems, value is no longer created only by a machine, a sensor, a software function, or one protected technical feature. It is created by the way ...

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When Technology and IP Become Boardroom Questions: What the CTO Spring Forum 2026 Revealed About AI and IP Leadership with Dr. Diana Taubert

The CTO Spring Forum 2026, held on 20 and 21 May in Munich, made one thing very clear: technology is no longer a topic that can be managed only within research, development or product departments. It has become a central leadership issue. This year’s ...

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Davos AI Signals for 2026: When “Adoption” Stops Being the Question

Andreas Liebl, CEO of appliedAI Initiative GmbH, gave an overview presentation on the discussions about AI from the World Economic Forum 2026 at a meeting of the CTO Forum on February 26th. The Davos “AI update” landed with an unusual mix of excitemen ...

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AI as a Value Driver for IP Law Firms: Key Insights from the Live Interview with Johannes Ernicke

In the recorded live interview with host Prof. Dr. Alexander Wurzer, Johannes Ernicke, Patent Attorney and Managing Director of patenza, took a differentiated look at how artificial intelligence is currently used in IP law firms and where its real, st ...

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From Proof of Value to Proof of Impact: How Hannes Burger and Daniel Holzner Turn patentbutler.ai into a Systematic Growth Engine on IPBA Connect

If you lead an IP department or an R&D team, you don’t just need another tool — you need a repeatable way to create demand for IP, prove its value inside your organization, and convert that value into measurable business outcomes. That’s exactly w ...

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AI-Powered Engineering: Why the Industrial World Is Entering a New Era

For more than a decade, digital transformation in engineering meant process standardization and automation, PLM integration, and the perpetual struggle to harmonise documentation across global R&D organisations. These efforts were necessary, but t ...

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Trade secrets v. patents – conflict of IP protection with AI in healthcare wearable devices

Digital technology and AI have hijacked all the industries, and the healthcare sector is not an exception. AI has helped in the evolution of the digital healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. This has expanded the scope of using AI in managing and pr ...

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Generative AI in Patent Practice: What We Learned in the 🖥️IP Business Talks Live Session with Sebastian Goebel

Generative AI is no longer a curiosity in IP — it’s a working tool that is reshaping how patent professionals read, reason, and write. In our recent 🖥️ IP Business Talks live session with patent attorney and long-time AI practitioner Sebastian Goebel, ...

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Explainable AI: How It Prevents Hallucinations and Builds Trust

Have you ever wondered whether you can really trust the answers provided by an AI? Many lawyers know the uneasy feeling: an AI delivers a seemingly brilliant legal answer — until it turns out that, for instance, Article 315 of Directive (EU) 2019/789 ...

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