Intellectual Property Protection

Abstract

With the growth of the knowledge-based economy, intellectual property right (IPR) is recognized as a key factor to develop and protect strategic competitiveness and innovation of an enterprise. The increasing degree of collaboration in global relationships, ubiquitous digital communication techniques as well as tough competition has lead to an increasing importance of intellectual property protection (IPP) for enterprises. Since the law as well as ethical principles are not always adhered to, there are increasingly activities outside legal understanding. This situation is exacerbated in the context of rising crime through the misuse of modern ICT technologies ("Cyber Crime") and now employs extensively state authorities. Piracy, counterfeits and unwanted know-how drain pose a significant problem for each market leader. Intellectual property is stored in product data too. Especially modern parametric and feature-based 3D-CAD systems have been enhanced towards acquiring, representing, processing and distributing knowledge to support knowledge-based engineering (KBE) within virtual product creation. However, it is very easy to exchange huge amounts of product data within a virtual enterprise that comprises an enterprise with its supplier network. There is an enormous threat that intellectual property could fall into the wrong hands and badly jeopardize the existence of the related company. This chapter contains an analysis of this conflict area, a picture of the legal framework, a discussion on the need for action in supply chain networks and attempts by research and development as well as best practices in industry for various aspects of IPP in the context of concurrent engineering (CE).

Towards agile enterprise rights management in engineering collaboration

“…The outcomes of a joint venture related to the perceived risks show that the greatest danger was considered to be that of incorrectly assessing the capabilities or trustworthiness of the partner (Hsu and Fang, 2009). The latter is highly important for frequent exchange of high amount of sensitive data (Stjepandić et al, 2015a).…”

As principais ameaças digitais e suas formas de mitigação no contexto da segurança da propriedade intelectual

“…Uma violação de dados pode afetar seriamente a propriedade intelectual organizacional, recursos, tempo e valor do produto (GOMES, 2020). Esta situação é exacerbada no contexto do aumento da criminalidade através do uso indevido de tecnologias modernas de TIC para cybercrime (STJEPANDIĆ; LIESE; TRAPPEY, 2015).…”

An Approach for Secure Data Transmission in a Distributed Production Environment

“…For this purpose, data analytics promise huge advantages. However, the exchange of data across organizational boundaries bears also the risks of being in the focus of cyber-attacks (Stjepandić, Liese & Trappey, 2015) or the risks of losing competitive knowledge or of revealing business insights to other companies or even to competitors . Both threats (1) to be a possible target of a cyber-attack and (2) not to know which business insights or critical knowledge an external part can derive from shared data are major concerns of organizations in general (North et al, 2019).…”