For Ansaldo Energia, protecting Intellectual Property means protecting and enhancing the work of our "inventors", as well as the constant investments made in this field, which are essential for generating know-how and maintaining the competitive advantage they smooth through the introduction of innovative solutions.
The Intellectual Property protection procedure affects crosswise the various corporate Business Units and all the companies of the AE Group.
The Intellectual Property Function, which serves the entire AE Group, supports this process at different levels, identifying the IP opportunities and risks the market presents, limiting the maintenance costs of the patents portfolio by optimizing the scope of protection and managing the patent filing process in accordance with the Group's strategic priorities, promoting the emergence of all potentially inventive ideas.
In recent days, the colleagues who filed 26 new patent applications and 2 Trade Secrets in 2021 have been awarded. The particularly significant data concern the growth of patents in the sustainability field, which proves the increasing attention to this crucial issue by the entire Ansaldo Energia Group.
