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Intellectual Property Work in Key Figures

Abstract

Intellectual property (IP) has always been, and will increasingly be, a critical success factor for a wide range of industries. Considerable efforts go into creating and safeguarding IP and this is particularly true when managing portfolios of so-called IP rights. The aim of this essay is to examine the question: How can IP-related work, its effectiveness and its efficiency be measured? In addition to appraising performance and productive efficiency, new key figures and ratios could also enable comparisons of various companies with respect to their ability to innovate and their understanding of the role of IP work.

Authors

Portrait image of Maik Ebersoll
Maik Ebersoll
Head of Legal Operations, Linde AG, Germany

Dr. Maik Ebersoll, LL.M. (com.) is Head of Legal Operations in The Linde Group’s legal services department. Besides advising in business law, his responsibilities include organisation, finance, people processes, strategy, legal risk management, systems and processes. Before joining Linde, he held several jobs in finance and in the German Air Force. His research focus includes Legal Management, Risk Management as well as alternative economic theory based on homomorphisms of economic structures and Gibbs-Falkian thermodynamics.

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Andreas Bong
Managing Partner, Otto Henning, Germany

Andreas Bong is Managing Partner at OTTO • HENNING, an international strategy consultancy based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is majorly responsible for strategic and organizational projects in legal departments and for the conception of benchmarks. Prior to that, he was Officer at the German Armed Forces for 12 years and was responsible for the preparation of strategic decision in conflict areas with German Armed Forces involved. He reported to the defense minister and his operational headquarters. Andreas Bong studied economy and economic organization at the University of the German armed forces in Munich and the University of California Berkley. Beside work he also graduated with an Executive-MBA at European School of Business.

Companies

Linde AG

www.linde.com (although the paper is of general interest and not solely related to Linde)

Otto Henning

www.linde.com (although the paper is of general interest and not solely related to Linde)

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