IP professionals
Learn more about open innovation, technology push and market pull and IP assessment, and find out how to identify partners and create market opportunities for successful IP commercialisation.
- Standards for IP management
The right approach to IP, especially patents in digitization, offers companies, regardless of their size, opportunities to create and protect customer benefits with innovative solutions. At the same time, however, the increasing complexity also increases the risk of infringement of third-party intellectual property rights. For companies that want to proactively develop their IP portfolio, secure freedom to operate, and manage it in a legally compliant, goal-oriented, and consistent manner, the norms DIN 77006 and ISO56005 show ways to manage these processes.
Read the full article in les Nouvelles - Journal of the Licensing Executives Society International
Read the short version of the article in the book ‘Winning with IP'Authors:
Alexander Wurzer
Director IP Management Education at CEIPINicky Wennemer
Legal Counsel, MECAL High-tech/Systems, Enschede, The NetherlandsSoon Jia Mei
President, International Institute of IP Management, Paris, FranceBastian Best
European and German Patent Attorney, BESTPATENT, Munich, GermanyMartin Wilming
Partner, Hepp Wenger Ryffel AG, St Gallen, SwitzerlandEt al.
- Creating IP for impact: Three EPO case studies
Finding cures for cancer is one of the toughest challenges in innovation. Novel ideas for treatments and diagnostics are hard to establish, costly and slow to develop. This article reviews three EPO innovation case studies featuring the journey of the biotech ventures Damae Medical, OncoMark and OncoQR. It demonstrates how intellectual property can lay a foundation for business ventures in this particularly complex field of innovation.
Read the short version of the article in the book ‘Winning with IP'
Authors:
Thomas Bereuter
Innovation networks manager, European Patent Academy, European Patent OfficeIlja Rudyk
Senior economist, European Patent OfficeAdéla Dvořáková
Vice-chair, LESI High-growth technology business committeeBowman Heiden
Co-director, Center for Intellectual Property (CIP), University of GothenburgJohn McManus
IP specialist, advisor and trainerCiaran O’Beirne
Head of knowledge transfer, University College Dublin- IP and open innovation: Managing technology push and pull
Growing technology convergence and speed to market drives the need for a broader set of accessible technologies and IP. This creates market opportunities for increased technology collaboration as some firms and organisations can find expanded uses for their existing technology portfolios (i.e. technology push), whereas others look to resolve innovation gaps using sources outside of their own in-house operations (i.e. technology* or market pull**). Firms need to generate a sophisticated understanding of their future innovation needs based on an integrated approach that combines business, technology and IP strategy. To remain competitive, all technology-driven firms are pushed to move from a closed to an open approach to innovation. To succeed, they need to consider all possible sources of innovation, for both development and commercialisation. Fundamentally, open innovation is a strategic IP management approach that needs to be governed explicitly, not implicitly.
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Read the short version of the article in the book ‘Winning with IP'Watch the video Technology push and Technology pull
Watch the video High growth business and patent commercialisation: Ruud Peters
Watch the video High growth business and patent commercialisation: Bowman HeidenAuthors (in alphabetical order):
Bowman Heiden
Co-Director, Center for Intellectual Property (CIP),
University of GothenburgRuud Peters
IP business leader, Peters IP consultancy, former Chief
Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO) of Philips- Integration of IP into the “classical” Stage-Gate Model
The Stage-Gate model is a widely used method for structuring the innovation process into defined phases, separated by distinctive gates. However, in its "classic" form, it typically does not include IP aspects. Since a thorough IP process is needed for any successful innovation project, key elements of IP protection have been integrated into the "classic" Stage-Gate model. The company Transitions Optical, for instance, uses such a model.
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Authors:
Christian Hackl
Managing Director, TUM-Tech GmbHSandrine Guillermin
Global IP Counsel, Transitions Optica- Succeeding with market facilitators
How buyers and sellers meet
Market facilitators play an important role in facilitating IP (intellectual property) transfers. This article reviews the advantages and limitations of the different types of market facilitators and provides guidance on how and when to involve them.
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Watch the video Succeeding with market facilitators
Watch the video Benefits of market facilitators in the Korean marketAuthors (in alphabetical order):
Bastian July
CEO, GoodIP, and General counsel, ProGloveIlja Rudyk
Senior economist, European Patent OfficeSucceeding with market facilitators
Market facilitators can be of great value to small and medium-sized enterprises or start-ups looking for early-stage R&D solutions. Learn how organisations such as Knowledge Transfer Ireland can provide access to all the information you need to protect and efficiently commercialise your technology.
Benefits of market facilitators in the Korean market
Discover the main differences between a private market facilitator and a public agent operating in the Korean market.
- How to market and license your technology
Best practices and expert insights from social media are combined to shed more light on the needs of licensees or buyers to improve technology offers and the marketing approaches of licensors and sellers to foster technology transfer.
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Watch the video Marketing for SMEs and technology companiesAuthors (in alphabetical order):
Thomas Bereuter
Innovation Support Programme Area Manager, European
Patent Academy, European Patent OfficeBastian July
CEO, GoodIP, and General counsel, ProGloveGene Quinn
President and CEO, IPWatchdog- Skills and systems
Find out how companies organise their business units to derive value from an intellectual property strategy and which actors play a major role in that process.
- From research to lift-off. Three EPO case studies
In the Technology transfer case studies, each venture has highlighted its takeaways on its path to transforming original research in the lab into commercial applications for use in real life.
Read the article in the book ‘Winning with IP’
Authors (in alphabetical order):
Thomas Bereuter
Innovation Support Programme Area Manager, European
Patent Academy, European Patent OfficeIlja Rudyk
Senior economist, European Patent Office
Related documents
More on the support for high-growth technology businesses in these excerpts from the book series “Winning with IP”, including a contribution from EPO’s experts (January 2022):