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What is the real value of a movable cross-country ski binding-patent?

First stop in an expensive patent dispute July 1st. 2022, the Oslo District Court ruled in favor of Norwegian bindings and ski-companies Rottefella and Madshus in their patent case against Amer Sports (Salomon and Atomic). This very Norwegian case, co ...

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Generic IP Strategy used by ARRI: Value-added Monopoly

A differentiation strategy calls for the development of a product or service that offers unique attributes customers perceive to be better than or different from the products of the competition. The value added by the uniqueness of the product may all ...

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Organizational Implementation of a Patent Strategy – Example Vorwerk Thermomix

The starting point of a company’s organization is the appropriate division of labor. The challenge is to quantitatively distribute the workload and qualitatively distribute the various requirements for the work to be performed. The division of labor c ...

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Did they really patent this use case? – IP strategy for fleet management – digital transformation at Hilti

Hilti’s leap from being a seller of equipment to becoming a provider of complete B2B solutions goes beyond additional services and traditional after sales support or spare parts supply: it is called fleet management. The fleet management idea at Hilti ...

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IP and the Metaverse

The Metaverse hast just begun to emerge. It iterates further by placing everyone inside an embodied or virtual 3D version of the internet and on a nearly unending basis. In other words, we will constantly be within the internet rather than have access ...

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Case Study: Signify and the SAILS Methodology Approach. 3rd module of the MIPLM 2021/22

The SAILS approach was originally developed as a road-mapping tool for analyzing disruptive threats to a company’s business model. SAILS is an acronym and stands for the initials of the individual methodological building blocks: (S) Standards, (A) Arc ...

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IP Lessons from Vintage Tech

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, ...

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Did they really patent this use case? – The Lego eco-system

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 ...

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Portfolio analysis and the patent life cycle

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 ...

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Alumna Portrait: Catalina Olivos on IP strategy applied in practice

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 ...

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