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Innovation and Intellectual Property Management (IIPM) Laboratory

Read more at: EPO's Patent Knowledge Week

EPO's Patent Knowledge Week

24 November 2021

On 21 November Frank delivered a talk in the opening session of this year's Patent Knowledge Week organised by the European Patent Office that superseeds the previous EPOPIC conference series. In his talk Frank reviewed the evolution of the patent informatics/analytics industry looking back some 20+ years and putting...


Read more at: IP and COP26

IP and COP26

12 November 2021

I had the chance to attend COP26 in Glasgow as observer on behalf of the University, particularly for Cambridge Global Challenges and Cambridge Zero. The three days have been a fantastic experience and I wrote two short travel reports in which I explore what the role of IP might be and how it could be used in the race...


Read more at: Interview series: What executives should know about IP

Interview series: What executives should know about IP

15 June 2021

The Risk of Short-Termism - An expert view by Ray Millien, Chief IP Officer at Volvo Car Group and CEO at Volvo Cars Ventures. This is the third blog, resulting from a series of interviews with senior IP experts discussing the question: "What do executives need to know about intellectual property to make better business...


Read more at: Interview series: What executives should know about IP

Interview series: What executives should know about IP

10 May 2021

How to select a good IP expert for your business? An expert view by Gwen ten Berge, Director IP Litigation at VMI Group and President of the Dutch division of AIPPI. By Charlotte Wittkampf This is the second blog, resulting from a series of interviews with senior IP experts, discussing the question "What do executives need...


Read more at: What do executives need to know about IP? An expert view by Graham Bell, IP Strategy consultant

What do executives need to know about IP? An expert view by Graham Bell, IP Strategy consultant

28 April 2021

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Graham Bell, founder and managing director of Cubicibuc Ltd., an IP consulting firm. For the past 5-6 years, Bell has been listed on the IAM Strategy 300. An annual list, carefully composed by IAM, of The World’s Leading IP Strategists. According to IAM, Graham Bell’s “abundant...


Read more at: Unpacking Crisis-Induced Intellectual Property Challenges

Unpacking Crisis-Induced Intellectual Property Challenges

21 October 2020

© Alexander Moerchel*, Frank Tietze, Leonidas Aristodemou, Pratheeba Vimalnath (2020) *Corresponding author. Please send comments to: amm211@cam.ac.uk Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic exposed firms, organisations and their respective supply chains which are directly involved in the manufacturing of products that are...


Read more at: Nature Biotechnology article "Pledging intellectual property for COVID-19"

Nature Biotechnology article "Pledging intellectual property for COVID-19"

5 October 2020

Voluntary pledges to make intellectual property broadly available to address urgent public health crises can overcome administrative and legal hurdles faced by more elaborate legal arrangements such as patent pools and achieve greater acceptance than governmental compulsory licensing. In our Nature Biotech article (38...


Read more at: Automated Licensing Payment Systems (ALPS) project leads expert workshop discussing use cases and challenges of the novel Bill-of-IP (BoIP) concept

Automated Licensing Payment Systems (ALPS) project leads expert workshop discussing use cases and challenges of the novel Bill-of-IP (BoIP) concept

23 September 2020

On 21 September, the IfM-led project group Automated Licensing Payment Systems (project) hosted a workshop with thought-leading Intellectual Property (IP) experts and scholars to discuss use cases and challenges of the Bill-of-IP (BoIP) - a novel concept for digital IP management (DIPM). At its core, the BoIP is a digital...


Read more at: Frank Tietze's talk at University's Maxwell Centre sharing insights into our Covid-19 + IP research

Frank Tietze's talk at University's Maxwell Centre sharing insights into our Covid-19 + IP research

2 July 2020

Frank Tietze, head of the IIPM Lab was invites to share insights into the research we have been working on since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The talk is organised by the University's Maxwell Centre jointly with Cambridge Network. In his talk Frank summarised the main findings from our recently published IEEE...


Read more at: Unpacking the innovation landscape for crisis-critical products, services and technologies in the Covid-19 pandemic

Unpacking the innovation landscape for crisis-critical products, services and technologies in the Covid-19 pandemic

1 July 2020

© Max Elsen*, Frank Tietze, Leonidas Aristodemou, Alexander Moerchel (2020) *Corresponding author. Please send comments to: maximilian.elsen.19@ucl.ac.uk Abstract: Lockdowns and related preventive measures have severely disrupted supply chains all over the world. While demand for a range of products and services, such as...