Tag: Industry 4.0

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) driven by data is a process, where smart connected devices, faster wireless internet and artificial intelligence are transforming the global economy. It leads to an increase of internet traffic with an estimated ...

In this “Origins of IP Management” episode we want to discuss the Paper: Fleisch/Weinberger/Wortmann: „Business Models and the Internet of Things“, Bosch, Technical Report, 9/2014 Cannot open the video? Please click: https://youtu.be/QHYpyUsDVf0  This ...

Pilz GmbH & Co. KG was founded by Hermann Pilz in 1948 in Esslingen as a glass blowing workshop. In the next decades it switched to the field of electronic equipment, where it spearheaded the development of industry standards in the safety industr ...

The value chain was first described by Michael Porter in his groundbreaking book “Competitive Advantage: creating and sustaining superior performance” (Porter, 1998). It describes the primary and support activities which are needed to create products ...

The latest data from the European Patent Office (EPO) on patent activities within the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) shows the dramatic development with a global growth in IPFs of 1,400% since the year 2000 and a growth of 54% in the last three ye ...

Digitalization is a game-changer in each and every industry and agriculture is no exception. The approach for Agriculture 4.0 is identical to that of Industry 4.0, where the aim is to intelligently connect production processes and control them based o ...

Digitalization is a game-changer in each and every industry. Sooner or later each business eco-systems underlies a digital transformation. This tendency has strong consequences for IP and especially patent strategies of affected enterprises. So, an an ...

Since the German Federal Network Agency started the application process for local 5G campus networks in November 2019, there has been an increasing number of reports about companies that have been allocated the corresponding local frequencies. There, ...

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 ...

Digitalization is a game-changer in each and every industry. Sooner or later the business eco-systems underly a digital transformation. This tendency has strong consequences for IP- and especially patent strategies for affected enterprises. In this LE ...