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First Copied, Then Stopped – How Wasilis Koukounis Used a Patent to Turn the Market Around: An Interview in Storytelling Style

In a corner of the global mining machinery market, where it’s all about tons of heavy excavators, massive buckets, and the proverbial teeth of these giants, a quiet but crucial strategy was unfolding. Not on the construction site, but in the con ...

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How to profit from patent information in the steel industry? – Interview with Sascha Kamhuber

In the contemporary global marketplace, steel manufacturers are confronted by a complex web of challenges, notably the imperative to achieve heightened cost efficiency amid volatile raw material and energy prices, as well as the intense pressure exert ...

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IP infringement risks in agile software development: New research project at the MIPLM

Due to the 4th industrial revolution, companies increasingly change their way of innovating new products and services. In an effort to master the digital transformation, companies are shifting from the traditional waterfall-driven development process ...

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Noteworthy Points of China’s New Patent Law 2021

The new Chinese patent law came into effect on June 1, 2021. This amendment involves many aspects, such as introduction of partial design, service invention, distribution of patent monetization, abuse of patent rights, patent term extension, voluntary ...

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Connected Car and IoT in danger: Daimler receives the next injunction

Now Daimler received the fourth patent injunction in only three months for its connect car concept. This time the regional court in Munich says that the carmaker must buy operating licenses from Nokia to use mobile communication technology in its vehi ...

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Nokia sues Daimler in Germany: Next round in the patent war for the Internet of Things – Justice Minister announces key issues paper

The start of the “Connected Cars” complex of proceedings at the Munich Regional Court began in June 2019. In detail, it concerns a patent for the reliability of the transmission of data and Daimler is accused of having installed this technology in a l ...

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Regional Court Munich: Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger apps violate Blackberry patent – patent wars in eco-systems

This news hit Germany like a bomb. While many companies in this country still do not even know that apps can be protected by patents, the Munich Regional Court ruled on December 6, 2019 against the online network Facebook with its chat apps WhatsApp a ...

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Patent infringement in the cloud: offshoring is no solution

After a ban on import and sale of the iPhone devices 6S, 6S +, 7, 7+, 8, 8+ and X was enforced against Apple for patent infringement in China in December 2018 the patent war is now continuing in Germany. Also, in Germany Apple has to take the iPhone m ...

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Broadcom’s patent infringement suits based on 18 patents against VW: One billion € claim and threat of production stop

The car has become a networked infotainment center in recent years. “Connectivity and state-of-the-art infotainment have found their way into all brands and all classes” announced VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, who has since stepped down, alrea ...

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Worldwide fight against plagiarism on the Internet: How Swarovski defends itself against pirates – the Director Global IP Enforcement reports at the MIPLM

Swarovski deals with plagiarism and counterfeiting of its products on trading platforms around the world. But through the cooperation with the Chinese Internet platform alibaba and the use of its own enforcement group, a first success was achieved.

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