IP Strategy - Industry 4.0

The fourth industrial revolution offers companies enormous opportunities to rejuvenate their business models through digitisation and networking. Such opportunities range from comprehensive networking of products in the Internet of Things (IoT), to Big Data applications for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems for automated analysis of data generated by networked products. Companies face challenges of many kinds here, also with regard to intellectual property: Many new and other competitors raise new questions regarding one’s own freedom to operate, exchanging and using data in networked systems needs regulating, and devices and systems must satisfy interoperability requirements. Our interdisciplinary team of experienced specialists enables us to provide precise guidance for the specific issues you face.

Our services

• Guidance on protective strategies for digital solutions
• Support for safeguarding the future on a business model basis, and in generating the relevant invention reports
• Designing patent applications and claims for successful granting and enforcement
• Developing risk reduction strategies in freedom-to-operate analyses