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4 Apr 2025

Welcome to Leopold von Gerlach from TU Munich

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!

20 Dec 2024

IIPM annual review

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 . 

13 Dec 2024

ALPS team meeting in Cambridge

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 work is also related to an …

12 Dec 2024

ECNU guest lecture and alumni meeting in Shanghai

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 Chinese edition of the 4E1…

8 Dec 2024

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

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. In his keynote, Prof. Tie…

3 Dec 2024

Welcome to the team

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 recently from the Technic…

20 Nov 2024

Fraunhofer INT seminar talk

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 about "The future of paten…

19 Nov 2024

Prof. Tietze delivered guest lecture at University of Exeter

"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 important to engineering stude…

19 Nov 2024

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

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 provides complementary perspectives on…

9 Oct 2024

Patent Olympiad at IPOS IP Week in Singapore

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. Image by N. Clarke. Nigel is all the way to the right. By Nigel Clarke. (C) 2024Patent searching is a profession. Patent searchers generally have backgrounds in sci…

8 Oct 2024

New EC Bulletin: Prof. Tietze reflects on the EC POINT project

In the recently published European IP Helpdesk Bulletin Prof. Tietze reflects on what has happened to the capabilities of SMEs to manage IP in open innovation projects following the publication of the EC POINT report in 2021.The Bulletin is available here: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ee45fb15-8138-11ef-a67d-01aa75ed71a1…

2 Oct 2024

Farewell to Alexander Viets and David Gross

We are saying good-bye to two of our IIPM visitors. Alexander Viets was a visiting PhD student from the University of Muenster. David Gross visited us to complete his master thesis as part of his programme at the RWTH Aachen. We look forward to continue our collaborations on joint papers and wish you all the best for your future careers.

2 Oct 2024

New paper published in TFSC

We are delighted to announce that a new IIPM paper has been published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC) jointly written by Dr. Maximilian Elsen and Prof. Tietze. Prior research shows that most climate change adaptation technologies (CCAT) are invented in high-income countries (HIC) with few studies analysing the contributions ma…

2 Oct 2024

Prof. Tietze delivers opening keynote at the 1st WIPO CoP Symposium

Last year, under the leadership of Andrew Czajkowski and Christopher Harrison, WIPO initiated a new Community of Practice (CoP) for patent analytics bringing together patent/IP offices from around the work to join forces and share experience on their work. The CoP held its inaugural in-person Symposium “Elevating Patent Analytics Together” in Genev…

2 Oct 2024

Congratulations to Alexander Moerchel

Many congratulations to soon-to-be Dr. Alexander Moerchel, who successfully completed his viva only with very minor corrections. His thesis is titled “Intellectual Property Management in Innovation Ecosystems – Developing Visual Methods for Mapping Dynamics, Uncertainties and Risks”. Many thanks to Prof. Tim Minshall, who kindly agreed to serve as …