Conference Agenda

Panellists

Chair: Amy Trappey (Editor-in-Chief - World Patent Information, WPI; Professor - National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Alfred Radauer (Associate Editor - WPI; Professor - IMC University of Applied Sciences, Krems, Austria)

Jane List (WPI previous EiC; Extract Information Ltd, UK)

Janine Catterall (Publisher, Elsevier, UK) j.catterall@elsevier.com

Jason Lee (School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) jasonlee@nycu.edu.tw

Simon Jones (Publisher, Elsevier, UK)

Josip Stjepandic (Director - PROSTEP AG, Germany)

Outline

As reported by WIPO’s World IP Indicator (WIPI) report in 2023, the number of global patent filings has continuously to grow reaching its all-time high (3.46 million) in 2022. WIPI emphasizes the vast number of patents, and all other categories of IP filings, e.g., trademarks, plant varieties, design models, help generate a wealth of IP rights that encourage and protect innovations and subsequently drive societal, economic, and environmental changes globally. Scholars, practitioners, and academic journals, such as World Patent Information (WPI), have kept up with such trends in IP related research, particularly recognizing the critical importance of patent and IP information with transdisciplinary engineering (TE) characteristics in diversified fields and changing societies. Without a doubt, the role and mission of studying IP management, strategies, and innovation protections are growing accordingly due to digital transformation and explosive increases of IP data and issues facing the world. This workshop welcomes the panelists, who are scholars and experts in patent/IP informatics, management, and publishing industry, and all TE2024 participants interested in the topics, to discuss the TE issues and challenges of innovations and IPs reflecting social changes. We will also introduce the latest special issues and popular topics in World Patent Information (an Elsevier’s leading IP/patent information journal) to the audiences.

Workshop flow

Session 1

Workshop panelists will present short talks based on their expertise (5~10 minute max) in IP/patent information, IPR protection, innovation challenges related to TE in the dynamically changing society. Topics of interests include (but not limited to):

World patent administration, publishing, and protection

Intellectual property (IP as intangible asset) management for the IP owners and users

Issues and challenges of innovations and IP for social changes

Transdisciplinary nature of IP information research (science, technology, law, and governance)

Impact of AI, machine/deep learning, natural language process (NLP), language model (LM) in the field of WPI

Promote TE-oriented WPI research topics

Session 2

Open discussion forum for all audiences and panelists.

Introduce WPI special issues/Special topics/call-for-papers (IP Policy and Management; Applications of Generative AI and Large Language Models in the Patent Domain)