CIP recently welcomed 33 participants from a diverse group of technology firms to its Business of Intellectual Property Executive Education in Gothenburg. The first module, which is focused on building an IP value mindset, was led by Ruud Peters, who is the co-faculty director of the program together with Bowman Heiden. At CIP, we regard Ruud as the G.O.A.T of value-driven IP management given his enormously successful track record building the IP & Standards organization at Philips and launching many entrepreneurially IP-related ventures during his tenure. Here, in the picture, Ruud is sharing his wisdom with his classic tough-love approach. The second module will be in October, where the participants will present their home company assignment and broaden their thinking of IP from a strategic business management starting point. More to come!

We are very pleased to hear that our CIP alumnus Viktor Ström will receive the Hans Werthén Scholarship in 2024!
He is one of the six researchers awarded this year’s scholarships from the Hans Werthén Foundation, for studies and research abroad. The aim is to give young academics the opportunity to develop in other countries and return with new knowledge and experience that can be useful in industry, business or academia in Sweden.

Viktor Ström is a researcher in innovation and entrepreneurship at School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg and active in Gothenburg U-GOT KIES – Gothenburg Centre on knowledge-intensive innovation ecosystems. He is accepted as a Postdoc at the Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, USA. The planned research is about innovation and entrepreneurship, including research collaboration between universities and companies and the connections between acquisitions, entrepreneurship and resilience.

To read more about it, please click here.

Save the date!

The first edition of the HTB forum ‘Digital Innovations’ is held on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. This event will showcase the importance of protecting and using digital innovations for high-tech start-ups and high-growth businesses.

In addition, registration is now open also for the upcoming HTB forums on open innovation and strategy management.

Big thanks to Lisa Rythén Larsson and Vink for hosting yesterday’s ICM Alumni Event in Gothenburg. The event included an interesting panel discussion on “AI Strategy—How will AI affect our business and industry in the upcoming years?” featuring views from our alumni working in different industries, including Therese Werner from Konsert, Hagberg, Jesper from AssaAbloy, and Anna Ajodan from Volvo Group.

It was wonderful to hear about the diversity of innovation activities our alumni are engaged in across many areas of technology, business, and law. The next event is proposed for Stockholm in the fall. Please contact us if you would like to host the event!

CIP Director, Bowman Heiden, recently participated in the Patents in Telecoms and IoT 2024 conference run by Robin Jacob and Lisa Penfold at University College London. Dr. Heiden spoke on the panel about EU SEP Regulation, providing a big-picture view of the role of economics in policy-making, the unique, collectively-ordered private model of SEP licensing, and why the global, collective nature of SEP licensing will likely make the proposed SEP regulation irrelevant in the IoT context.

We would like to thank all the participants for a successful CIP Roundtable 2024, in particular, our speakers Jonas Lindgren and William Mansfield for leading the discussion on IP & Sustainability and Andrew Gaule, Jard van Ingen, and Edward Bray for showing us the state-of-the-art in GenAI applied to business, technology, and IP management. We will have follow-up posts on each of their contributions shortly. Sustainability and GenAI will be the core themes that define the development of CIP activities into 2025, which will mark our 25th anniversary.

We were also happy to welcome the master’s students participating in ICM Advice and the ICM Certificate Program to meet and share their future plans with our CIP partners and advisors. With the pandemic and the changes to the ICM education, we have missed the strong interaction between the students and CIP activities in recent years, so we were excited to be able to gather everyone together this year!

Finally, we discussed CIP’s plans to grow globally through collaboration with new university and industry partners worldwide, building on our close partnership with UC-Berkeley in the U.S.

As Senior Counsel, Law Enforcement and Content Safety, you will tackle a range of cutting-edge matters arising from content on Pinterest, including issues relating to intermediary liability, content, and child safety issues. You’ll work with our Trust & Safety, Engineering, Product, Operations, and Public Policy teams to evaluate and ensure compliance with a dynamic and developing legal landscape governing user generated content.

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As Senior Counsel – Patent and Trademark you will be responsible for managing and protecting the company’s intellectual property assets, including patents and trademarks, and managing Pinterest’s program to protect third-party IP, including its IP notice-and-takedown program. You’ll work closely with cross-functional partners in Engineering, Product, Content, Trust & Safety, and Legal to develop and implement strategies to safeguard our inventions and brand-identity.

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The Center for Intellectual Property x innovation Policy (C-IP²⁾ at GMU is hosting the prestigious WIPO-U.S. Summer School on Intellectual Property this June 3-7, 10-14 for the seventh year. The 10-day virtual program is a great quick intro into U.S. intellectual property law which students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, and innovators find very useful for their studies and careers.

Law students (and possibly pre-law students) can receive credit and a WIPO certificate if they complete the program requirements (attendance is counted), but professionals also register for the course to join the sessions most valuable to their field.

Please apply here.

In a month’s time, this year’s CIP Roundtable will gather our partners and advisors for a strategic discussion on the two biggest challenges facing business and society – Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence.

Sustainability, particularly in the environmental context, it is one of the top goals of most companies. How does sustainability, which requires a long-term approach, fit within the current system that rewards short-term results? What is the role of IP in incentivizing innovation but also facilitating openness, given the value of knowledge spillovers in addressing climate change globally? What are the best practices for IP management to meaningfully address sustainability, and how should success be measured?

The recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, particularly generative AI, have every sector diligently reviewing all potential opportunities and threats. There is a consensus that GenAI will transform the economy and society – the only questions are when and exactly how. So, how should firms start to navigate the use of AI in their business practices? What are its current capabilities and future trajectory concerning innovation and IP management? How quickly will GenAI significantly impact the highly skilled work of invention and patenting?

Lastly, we will discuss several new programs to develop the dynamic capabilities necessary to embrace these challenges and lead organizational transformation.