News

Welcome to Dr. Schäper

8 July 2025

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Thomas Schäper, who has recently joined us from the University of Münster as a visiting research scholar at the IIPM Lab. His research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, innovation, and intellectual property, with a particular emphasis on the use of large language models...

IIPM @ R&D Management Conference

1 July 2025

Qi Ang Du and Frank Tietze attended this year's R&D Management Conference in Pisa (Italy) organized by the Institute of Management of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna . Frank Tietze acted as one of the chairs for the IP Management track jointly organized since 2021 with Alfred Radauer, Martin Moehrle, Ioanna Stefan, Martin...

Newspaper article

2 June 2025

A short opinion piece by Prof. Tietze was featured in the Brussels Morning Newspaper calling for more innovation within our IPR systems to address global challenges: https://brusselsmorning.com/we-need-strong-intellectual-property-rights-for-a-sustainable-future/73186/

Thought piece: Has Innovation Broken Western Culture? Reflections on Contemporary Western Culture and Possible Innovative Ways Forward

20 May 2025

By Frank Tietze (2025) Western culture today is profoundly shaped by ongoing waves of innovation, a concept close to my heart and to which I have dedicated many years of my professional research and teaching career. Technological innovation particularly has transformed daily life, created jobs, and helped build tech...

New paper published on the Geopolitics of Battery Technologies

20 May 2025

Together with colleagues from the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Muenster, the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production (FFB) and the Helmholtz Institute Muenster (IMD-4) we have published the results of a patent study investigating the geostrategic race for leadership in...

Book Launch: Business Secrets Management

19 May 2025

Graham Bell, one of IfM Engage TPA’s associated with the Innovation and IP Management lab, is excited to announce the launch of a new book on “ Business Secrets Management – Strategies to Protect, Extracts and Maximise Value ”. As an expert group of 13 authors, have together collaborated in a work stream within the...

IP analytics teaching kit available for download

16 May 2025

An IP analytics teaching activity that has been developed for graduate/postgraduate students and been tested for several years with IfM PhD students has now been released as a teaching kit under a creative commons license. The teaching kit download package contains two sets of PPT files for the kickoff and interim...

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...