CIP has now launched the CIPO Academy to take IP management to the next level. The signature program is the Advanced Leadership Program (ALP) in Strategic IP Management, run in partnership with UC-Berkeley. The ALP is a capacity development program designed for senior or aspiring IP managers in technology or industrial-based companies who aim to elevate their roles and organizations to the corporate executive level. The program is delivered over a one-year period through a focused mentoring process that seeks to evaluate the current IP impact on business value, reframe the potential impact, and develop and implement new individual and organizational goals. The ALP is part of the CIPO Academy at CIP and UC Berkeley, taught by Ruud Peters, Bowman Heiden, and affiliated faculty mentors.

We’re delighted to share that Severin de Wit and CIP’s Co-Director Ruud Peters have contributed the chapter “Patent Management in the 21st Century” to the new Edward Elgar volume A Modern Guide to Patents.

In the chapter, they argue that:
✨ Patent quantity does not equal patent value.
✨ IP strategy should align with business strategy—not the other way around.
✨ Companies must select the appropriate IP value model (exclusivity, commercial, mitigation, liberty).
✨ ROI on patents must be quantifiable.
✨ AI, data, and tech convergence are fundamentally transforming invention, ownership, and enforcement.

In short, patent management has entered a new era that requires proactive strategies, more precise portfolio decisions, and a clearer understanding of value.

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CIP has partnered with LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions for an upcoming webinar on Dec. 2nd on Making IP Matter: Communicating Value Across the Business and Beyond. CIP Co-Directors, Ruud Peters and Bowman Heiden, will present how IP leaders can transform their organizations from a cost center to a value center and introduce a new Advanced Leadership Program on Strategic IP Management run jointly by UC-Berkeley and CIP.

At CIP, we are grateful to everyone who participated in the 25^th Anniversary CIP Forum 2025. Thank you for being part of the celebration – you’re support on this long and winding road has made all the difference!

CIP is happy to announce the launch of its new blog series, CONNECTING THE DOTS, as part of its 25th Anniversary year. The series will feature many of the classic concepts and insights developed through its education, research, and collaboration activities with leading actors in the field of IP strategy and policy. The content will be short and thought-provoking with the goal of inspiring both reflection and action. We not only welcome your feedback, but see it as critical to understanding what the real obstacles are that block progress.

Enjoy the first post, “How you define IP determines how you manage it” by Bowman Heiden and Ruud Peters. Stay tuned for the next edition!

Last week we completed the first module of the Business of Intellectual Property (BIP) executive education program at @Center for Intellectual Property. The program was attended by 27 participants representing diverse industries with the common goal to increase the value creation potential of IP for their businesses. This first module was delivered by CIP Co-Directors, @Bowman Heiden and @Ruud Peters, with their characteristic tough-love approach based on their over 60 years of combined experience from industry and academia. The participants will now apply the new frameworks in the context of their own companies to internalize what they have learned in support of practical strategic decision making and share their results at the beginning of the second module.

The WIPO-U.S. Summer School on Intellectual Property is a two-week course that offers a practical overview of IP law in the United States and attracts students and young attorneys, industry professionals, and government officials from around the world.

The Summer School is co-organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)—the United Nations agency focused on IP law in international markets—and IPPI: The IP Policy Institute at The University of Akron School of Law, a Washington, D.C.-area based organization and WIPO’s exclusive U.S. partner for the Summer School program.

June 2-13, 2025 | Weekdays only
Hosted live online via Microsoft Teams
Time zone: Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT), GMT-4

CIP Director, Bowman Heiden, participated in the Warsaw SEP Conference on Regulatory and Enforcement Developments for Standard Essential Patents on March 6^th. His panel session was focused on Assessing policy and legislative efforts related to SEPs, where he provided his views on how SEP-enabled markets are already highly regulated by collective private action, where remaining inefficiencies are best addressed by further innovative market actions as opposed to a heavy governmental regulatory regime. He was joined on his panel by Taraneh Maghame, Rudi Bekkers, Robert Pocknell, Josef Drexl, and moderated by Corin Gittinger.

We are very happy to announce the start of the ICM Certificate Program for 2025 delivered by the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership at UC-Berkeley in partnership with the Center for Intellectual Property. This year, over 180 students have registered from Chalmers University of Technology, Durham University, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki University, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, University of Gothenburg, and the University of Turku. We are grateful for the university collaboration with Viktor Ström, Nigel Swycher, Volker Röben, Auri Vainio, Hilkka Honkanen, Knut J. Egelie, and Haakon Thue Lie.

The concept of “intellectual capital” was popularized by the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith (Harvard) and operationalized into innovation strategy by David Teece (UC-Berkeley), who is the most highly cited business scholar in the world. ICM was further developed by Ulf Petrusson, Bowman Heiden, and colleagues at Chalmers University and University of Gothenburg into an interdisciplinary master’s education for engineers, lawyers, and business students to prepare them for the leadership challenges of the 21^st century knowledge economy.

The purpose of the program is to provide students across the world with a unique theoretical perspective and the interdisciplinary skills and tools necessary to create and manage strategies for innovation and entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy, in general, and the digital economy, in particular.

We welcome future collaborations with universities around the world as part of our ICM Global initiative.