Veranstaltungen

Dr. Jesus Ivan Mora Gonzales wird sprechen über "Parasitism on Trademark Reputation: the Genuine Fake Markets".

By linking an open innovation perspective and a contingency view, this paper contributes to the open innovation literature in two ways. First, answering the recent call of scholars, we bring environmental context into open innovation research. In line with a ‘fit as moderation’ perspective we claim that some environmental contingencies might be favorable for searching broadly, but less favorable for searching deeply. To the best of our knowledge this is the first empirical study that explicitly focuses on specific contingencies in the external environment that shape firms’ ability to benefit from open innovation. Second, rather than treating search openness as a homogeneous construct, we explicitly focus on the differential effects of breadth and depth on firms’ innovation performance. As we will show, this approach delivers a more fine-grained understanding of how contingencies affect the value of external search breadth and depth and their differential impact on innovation performance.

We are delighted to invite you to the next lecture in the MIPLC Lecture Series, which will be held on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 at 6:30 p.m. in the MIPLC classroom (room 220), which is located on the second floor of the Marstallstraße 8.

Professor John F. Duffy will speak on "Statutory Domain and the Commercial Law of I ntellectual Property: Understanding the U.S. Exhaustion Doctrine". Please see the attached invitation for further information and details.

Using a novel panel data set of Japanese inventors, we investigate how monetary incentives affect corporate inventors' behavior and performance. Furthermore, we analyze how these incentives interact with intrinsic motivation. Our findings are as follows: (1) While introducing or raising revenue-based payments is associated with higher patent quality, such schemes decrease the number of citations to non-patent literature; (2) the strength of intrinsic motivation - measured by the importance of the inventors’ interest in contributing to the advancement of science (“taste for science” hereafter) - raises the inventors' patent productivity; and (3) the taste for science weakens the marginal effect of monetary incentives on inventive productivity, and further reinforces the negative effect of monetary incentives on the inventors’ backward citations from non-patent literature.

Hat das Trennungsprinzip eine Zukunft?
Dr. Peter Meier-Beck, Vorsitzender Richter am Bundesgerichtshof

Der Vortrag ist Teil des Patentrechtszyklus 2014 "Patentrecht in der Krise?" des Max-Planck-Instituts für Innovation und Wettbewerb. Er findet (ausnahmsweise) statt

am Donnerstag, den 27. November 2014, um 18.00 Uhr, im Raum E10 des MPI für Innovation und Wettbewerb, Marstallplatz 1, 80539 München.

Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis zum Montag, den 24. November 2014.Weitere Informationen finden Sie in der Einladung im Anhang. Bitte leiten Sie diese auch gerne an Interessierte weiter.

The "[IP]² - Intellectual Property in Practice" group is glad to announce the next seminar on "Patent Monetisation at Fraunhofer Society".

We cordially invite you to attend the presentation and participate in the discussion on Tuesday, February 25, 2014, between 6:00 and 7:00pm in Room E10 at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Marstallplatz 1, Munich.

Our guest speaker will be Dr. Christian Schamper of the Patents and Licensing Department at Fraunhofer Society, one of the leading research organizations for applied sciences in Germany. More information on the speaker and the organization can be found below. Dr. Schamper's presentation will last around 30 minutes. As in previous seminars, the other half of the seminar is dedicated to questions and discussion. 

About the speaker - Dr. Christian Schamper
Christian Schamper is responsible for Patent Strategies and Utilization in Patents and Licensing Department at the Fraunhofer Society headquarter in Munich. For more than ten years he has been developing and implementing tools for patent generation and monetization. His responsibilities include patent strategy, licensing programs and patent assertion. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the LMU Munich. Before joining Fraunhofer Society he worked in sales, management consulting and business development.

About the organization - Fraunhofer Society
Fraunhofer Society is one of the largest organizations for applied research in Europe. Research contracts from industry and the public sector contribute more than two-thirds to the Fraunhofer budget. Stand-alone licensing programs are seen as a promising approach to generate additional income from the industry. In order to recognize and realize this potential, it is necessary to understand the market and seek partnerships where appropriate. The presentation gives an overview of Fraunhofer's approach to patent monetization.

We present an empirical analysis of the effects of patent thickets at the European Patent Office on entry into patenting by UK firms. Using a direct measure of patent thicket density, we provide evidence for the existence and growth of patent thickets in specific industries, notably in telecommunications, audiovisual technology, and computer technology. Our analysis indicates that the density of patent thickets is associated with reduced entry into patenting in the particular technology area (controlling for the level of patenting in that area). We find this effect to be particularly pronounced for electronics and telecommunications. It is also stronger for smaller than for large companies.

A question of considerable interest in a world of tightened resources is the relationship between research outputs to research inputs. At the national level, policy makers want to know the degree to which more funding leads to more research. At the micro level, funding agencies want to know the degree to which research can be attributed to the funds invested in researchers. These types of questions are sometimes answered by relating the amount of direct funding investigators receive from a foundation or agency to the number of articles published in the next two or three years.

The approach of relating publications to agency funding (PAF) highlights two issues encountered in examining the relationship between research inputs and outputs. The first is one of attribution: exactly which articles should be attributed to what funding stream? In the PAF approach all articles published in the next few years are attributed to total agency funding received in a given year. Yet some articles undoubtedly result from funding received prior to the year being studied while others relate to funding received in future years. The PAF approach also assumes that all articles can be attributed to funding from one agency. Yet many researchers have funding from more than one agency.

The Graduation Ceremony of the MIPLC's 11th class will take place on Friday, November 14, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. at the Rococo Hall of Augsburg (Rokokosaal der Regierung von Schwaben), Fronhof 10, 86152 Augsburg, Germany.

You will receive a formal invitation in due time, but kindly save the date for this event even now.

We look forward to celebrating with you the successful completion of the LL.M. program "Intellectual Property and Competition Law" by the class of 2013/14.