CV Issue 2 2018

50 CORPORATE VISION / Issue 2 2018 , IndustryAnalysts andPatent Attorney require the same personal skill set. However, this combination (analyst and IP attorney) is rare – to be precise: unique. LifeTech IP addresses the most advanced technologyfields, andhelps IPdepartments to prepare for future challenges in terms of IPprotection, aswell as, IPportfoliomanagement as Ruediger Spies tells usmore. What do have Industry Analysts and Patent Attorneys in Common? To give a short answer to the headline: a lot! – – But what are industry analysts? Essentially, they live in the data stream of technology advances, predict industry and technology trends, are interviewed by the press and sometimes TV, make a lot of keynote speeches and, foremost consult the C-level of the G3000 enterprises, as well as, technology companies of any size. Now, what does this have to do with patent attorneys? Well, it turns out that the required personal profiles of the two job profiles have a lot in common. Successful industry analysts and patent attorneys have to have four basic personal skills: a) They need to understand and digest your information fast; b) They need to be able to write about it; c) They need to be able to present complex subject matter; and d) They should be able to market their services The most important thing about this is that successful subjects of the mentioned job profiles should have the mentioned skills equally split. In almost all other areas, an unbalanced personal profile is more common and more useful. Therefore, starting from the basis of an industry analyst and moving into the role of a patent attorney, only needs some “pixie dust” of legal expertise, such as being a German patent attorney, a representative before the EPO and have law degree as master of intellectual property law and management (MIPLM) of the Strasbourg university. This is the basis, on which LifeTech IP has been founded originally. That this concept works shows the development of the last years. Today, this law firm represents and works in close collaboration with industry giants like IBM (representation and working with most of the European R&D labs), Bayer (in the software area) and manages the IP activities of a large spinoff of Airbus. An international network of associated law firms around the globe allows enabling IP protection everywhere. Today’s technology fields grow rapidly in depth and breadth and require continuous investment in skills and knowledge. LifeTech IP is addressing many of the advanced high-tech areas like image recognition, cognitive computing, Internet of Things, just to name a few. Thereby, LifeTech IP envisions that the 6th Kondratieff cycle will not be dominated by one single field (like healthcare as some experts think) but in a combination of many different technology fields like electronics and software. By combining the knowledge of such a plurality of generally completely 1802CV03 different science fields, many new inventions will be made; hopefully, to make this planet a better world. This ever increasing complexity clearly represents a major challenge to almost all IP law firms, resulting in a Taylor-ized approach (in which the biologist do not talk to and understand the quantum computing specialists)

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