Sponsorship by the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
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The Chair of IIPP of Prof. G. de Rassenfosse has received funding from the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI).
The IPI, based in Bern, is an agency of the federal administration responsible for patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs and copyright. It is part of the Federal Department of Justice and Police. The funding will allow Prof. de Rassenfosse to continue his project of building a large-scale, first-of-its-kind database of correspondence between products and patents. The work relies on advanced data science techniques to crawl, process and structure information from the web. In addition to the IPI, the project has received funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the European Patent Office, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. The database will be made available openly to foster research in the fields of economics and management of innovation, and intellectual property law. It is expected that some of this research will have direct implications for policy-making in Switzerland. This collaboration is a testimony to the pioneering nature and the real-world relevance of the work performed by Prof. de Rassenfosse and his lab.