Nowadays, it is common for two or more companies to collaborate in developing certain projects for their common benefit. With the increasing number of companies entering into collaborative innovation, ...

Across many industries, it is becoming increasingly less common for a single organization to maintain the internal infrastructure and staff for all essential aspects of their business. Many companies ...

The legal relationship between joint owners of a patent is based on the applicable national law. In Germany, in the absence of any contract, the principle of Bruchteilsgemeinschaft (community of part ...

Economies around the globe continue to see the rise of the services sector as the chief creator of wealth and the engine of growth for the foreseeable future. We are in the midst of a radical and ...

With the rise in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in all forms, the question is becoming more present than ever – who owns the intellectual property in a work created with the use of AI? In ...

Startups and tech companies are disruptive by nature. We’ve seen that with the advent of the dot-com era, where Google broke free from its browser origins to shape our shopping, dining and travel ...

June 7, 2023 - The wise advice often passed along in residential real estate to "think about the exit when you buy" applies to joint ventures (JVs) and intellectual property (IP), as well. Like many ...