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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Alexander joined the Institute for Manufacturing as a visiting PhD student in the Innovation and Intellectual Property Management Lab. His research focuses on strategic and innovation management. At the IIPM lab his focus will be on IP litigation and its performance outcomes. In addition, he uses large language models to establish a novel text-based classification of patent litigations.

Alexander is a research associate and PhD student in innovation management at the University of Münster in Germany, where he also completed his M.Sc. in Business Administration. During his studies he gained practical experience in banking at Deutsche Bank AG and in consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers AG.


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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