21 Sep 2022
Frank Tietze becomes President of the EPIP Association
Following the general assembly at this year's EPIP conference Frank Tietze has been confirmed as the association's new president.
11 Aug 2022
Maximilian Elsen on research visit at ETH Zurich
Max, who is currently a second year PhD Candidate within the IIPM, is visiting ETH Zurich over July and August to work in the Group for Sustainability and Technology (https://sustec.ethz.ch/). Within his PhD, Max works on a project that researches the sustainability value of firm-level patent portfolios. He works together on the project with Benedi…
26 Feb 2022
Open innovation: Solving IP challenges for SMEs
The recent addition of The Manufacturer features an article summarizing the key results from our recent POINT project for the European Commission, particularly EISMEA (European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency). The article addresses the needs of SMEs, particularly when it comes to the IP related challenges they face in collaborative an…
10 Jan 2022
New project funded by British Council
This British Council has awarded to the IIPM Lab an India-UK partnership project that aims to design, develop, and pilot test a multidisciplinary teaching module for educating Indian graduate students on ‘Intellectual Property for Sustainability’. The project integrates learnings from the ongoing Belmont Forum and Norface funded, international and …
16 Dec 2021
ALPS collaboration with University of Pisa
The ALPS team is pleased to announce the start of a formal collaboration between the IIPM Lab, on behalf of the University of Cambridge, and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa in Italy. The project is called “Climbing ALPS” and the local manager is Frank Tietze, while the overseas manager is Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, for…
24 Nov 2021
EPO's Patent Knowledge Week
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 forward some ideas of how the i…
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 towards Net Zero.The first rep…
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…
