Intellectual Property Law

Digitalization and its developments are placing new demands on intellectual property law: “artificial intelligence”, but also individualized therapies and medications, are not entirely comparable with traditional objects of intellectual property law.

In addition to conceptual issues, technical progress and economic globalization lead to an increasing importance of interoperability as a prerequisite for innovation and follow-on innovation. New applications, for example, rely on interface information if they want to operate in an already existing environment and benefit from the network effects it generates. This raises the question of the extent to which concepts such as FRAND licensing are shifting the intellectual property framework from exclusive protection to an access regime.