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Welcome to Leo from TUM

4 April 2025

We are pleased to welcome a new addition to our team. Leopold von Gerlach has recently joined us from the Technical University of Munich to pursue his master’s thesis at the IIPM Lab. His research focuses on IP challenges in remanufacturing. Welcome, Leopold! img_0537.jpeg

IIPM annual review

20 December 2024

We have summarized some of the key events and achievements of the Lab and our members from 2024 in a first ever edition of our annual review, which is available for download iipm-ctm_annual_review_2024.pdf iipm-ctm_annual_review_2024.pdf .

ALPS team meeting in Cambridge

13 December 2024

It was a pleasure to welcome most the ALPS team to Cambridge. Having worked for some many months together mostly remotely, it was good to see everyone again together in-person. The team works on the Automated Licensing Payment System (ALPS) project currently exploring options to commercialize the technology platform. The...

ECNU guest lecture and alumni meeting in Shanghai

12 December 2024

Following the days at Tongji University, Prof. Tietze provided a guest lecture to students at the East China Normal University (ECNU) as part of the module run by Dr. Aocheng Tang , Assitant Professor at ECNU's Department of Economics and Management and IIPM Lab alumni. This year, at ECNU he started teaching the first ever...

Keynote at SICIP in Shanghai and visit to Jiangsu Patent Examination Center

8 December 2024

Prof. Tietze was invited to provide a keynote at the 21st Shanghai International Intellectual Property Forum - SICIP Sub Forum. The theme of the Forum was "Innovation Research Powered by Intellectual Property Data". The Forum was organised by the Shanghai International College of Intellectual Property at Tongji University...

Welcome to the team

3 December 2024

We have a few new additions to the team to whom we say a very warm welcome. Qi Ang Du (left) and Peize Li (second from left) join us from China as PhD students together with Rahul Patil (right), here with his partner Ashwini Dayama (second from right), who both join us from India. Josephine Melcher (in the middle) joint us...

Fraunhofer INT seminar talk

20 November 2024

Prof. Tietze was invited to contribute a talk to the Fraunhofer seminar series. The Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis INT offers scientifically-based judgment and consulting across the full spectrum of technological developments and their interactions with social and economic issues. Prof. Tietze spoke...

Prof. Tietze delivered guest lecture at University of Exeter

19 November 2024

"It was a great pleasure to provide a guest lecture to such bright engineering students at the University of Exeter" says Prof. Tietze, who was invited by Pratheeba Vimalnath, former IfM colleague to provide a lecture titled "Intellectual Property Rights: owning, using & finding them". The lecture focused on why IP is...

Kickoff of another edition of Innovation & Strategic Management of Intellectual Property course

19 November 2024

Every year since 2019, from October to December we run an eight week elective module focused on Innovation & Strategic Management of Intellectual Property . The module is build around what we came to call the Cambridge IP strategy framework. Lectures by Prof. Tietze are supported by a range of guest speakers who...

Patent Olympiad at IPOS IP Week in Singapore

9 October 2024

Dr Nigel Clarke, Visiting Fellow to the IIPM Lab is co-founder of the Patent Olympiad, which recently took place in Singapore at the IPOS IP Week. He has provided a short article below. powinners2024.jpeg Image by N. Clarke. Nigel is all the way to the right. By Nigel Clarke. (C) 2024 Patent searching is a profession...