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15 Jun 2021

Interview series: What executives should know about IP

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 decisions?".Recently I had t…

10 May 2021

Interview series: What executives should know about IP

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 WittkampfThis is the second blog, resulting from a series of interviews with senior IP experts, discussing the question "What do executives need to know about intellectua…

28 Apr 2021

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

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 international experience, deep …

21 Oct 2020

Unpacking Crisis-Induced Intellectual Property Challenges

© 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 critical to alleviating the effect…

5 Oct 2020

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

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, pages1146–1149, 2020) we contr…

23 Sep 2020

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

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 repository that organises a…

2 Jul 2020

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

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 Transactions on Engineering Mana…

1 Jul 2020

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

© Max Elsen*, Frank Tietze, Leonidas Aristodemou, Alexander Moerchel (2020)*Corresponding author. Please send comments to: maximilian.elsen.19@ucl.ac.ukAbstract: 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 in the air travel and the hos…

20 May 2020

Why intellectual property needs urgent attention from policy makers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Intellectual property (IP) is a tool to help govern global open innovation systems, and should therefore be given higher priority when leading into a more sustainable post-Covid-19 world.The Covid-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change are both global challenges for humanity and crises of unprecedented scale that call for international collec…

12 May 2020

New working paper focusing on IP challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic

A pandemic calls for large-scale action across sectors in order to mobilise resources to develop and manufacture crisis-critical products as efficiently as possible, in the huge quantities needed. This include digital innovations ranging from complex epidemiological models, artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies, to open data platforms for prev…