🎧 IP Management Voice - Your Podcast on the World of IP and IP Management

This episode outlines a framework of Business Development Archetypes designed to help IP professionals align their natural communication styles with effective client acquisition strategies. It argues that modern IP business development requires an orchestrated system where an expert’s style, identified as four archetypes: Expert, Debater, Activator, and Confidant, dictates the most successful channels and content formats. The episode introduces five core principles, such as prioritising strength before channel and ensuring followup is design, not personality, to convert visibility into qualified conversations. Furthermore, it details the IP Subject Matter Expert model, a collaborative system where a platform handles production and distribution,...

Innovation leadership increasingly depends on how organizations create and manage intellectual property. IP design goes far beyond legal protection: it is a strategic leadership framework that helps companies align innovation with long-term business goals, anticipate IP risks, and position their products in competitive markets. This episode explores how business leaders can integrate IP design into innovation processes, from early trend analysis and freedom-to-operate thinking to customer-centric product development and market positioning. It highlights why IP design enables organizations to foster innovation, manage uncertainty, and create sustainable competitive advantage in the digital economy.

This episode provides comprehensive guidance for IP professionals—including patent attorneys and licensing experts—on the strategic necessity of positioning themselves in a competitive market. It defines positioning as the deliberate process of clarifying an expert's unique value, target audience, and the specific problems they solve to avoid commoditisation and attract higher-quality mandates. The episode outlines nine core principles for successful positioning, emphasising evidence before claims, aligning expertise with business outcomes, and maintaining consistency across all communication channels. Furthermore, it details how the IPBA Connect platform and IP Business Academy provide the infrastructure, tools, and publishing rhythm necessary to implement this strategy,...

This episode explores how the availability of judicial data is transforming the understanding and application of law across the European Union. It argues that comprehensive, high-quality access to court decisions is no longer a technical detail, but a foundational requirement for legal predictability, democratic accountability, and the rule of law in a data-driven society.
The discussion outlines the shift from a purely text-based interpretation of law toward an empirical analysis of “law in action,” where judicial behavior, argumentation patterns, and decision-making trends can be examined at scale. It explains why data quality—completeness, structure, reliability, and accessibility—is decisive for meaningful AI-supported...