Geographical Indications (GI) protect local goods and traditional production processes against imitation and misuse. A new research project around Andrea Zappalaglio and Suelen Carls will examine the legal system of GI in an overall assessment.
The one thing all smart devices need – whether in industry, agriculture, or the common household – is data. In his new study, Josef Drexl proposes guidelines for the the future EU legal framework for the digital economy.
On the occasion of the opening of the German Research Summit 2019, Dietmar Harhoff points out in his keynote, that the German AI Strategy needs more agility in politics.
German Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek and German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier appoint Dietmar Harhoff chair of the commission for the establishment of the new agency.
A purely English-language journal on intellectual property law from Germany? That was quite revolutionary 50 years ago. Today, the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC) is among the world’s leading academic journals in its field. What is the secret of its success?
On 27 February 2019, the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation chaired by Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation, has presented the twelfth report on research, innovation and technological performance in Germany to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Externally funded project Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
The Use of Copyright-Protected Creative Online Content by German Consumers
Prof. Dietmar Harhoff, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty, Dr. Roland A. Stürz, Dr. Alexander Suyer
Further research project Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Data-driven Economy: The Need for Regulation Due to Digitalisation?
Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty, Francisco Beneke, Luc Desaunettes, Michèle Finck, Jure Globocnik, Jörg Hoffmann, Leonard Hollander, Daria Kim, Heiko Richter, Stefan Scheuerer, Peter Slowinski, Jannick Thonemann, Klaus Wiedemann, Franziska Greiner (formerly), Gintarė Surblytė (formerly), Axel Walz (formerly)
Further research project Intellectual Property and Competition Law
Modernisation of European Copyright Rules
Prof. Dr. Reto M. Hilty, Dr. Valentina Moscon (Project coordinator), Andrea Bauer, Dr. Silke von Lewinski, Ricarda Lotte, Heiko Richter, Moritz Sutterer, Tao Li
