00:22 What types of intellectual property rights exist and what are they protecting?
03:32 How important is the intellectual property system for today’s economy?
04:38 What are the main challenges of any intellectual property system?
05:59 What is the role of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property?
08:13 Are national regulations for intellectual property rights still the right framework in an increasingly globalized economy?
10:35 What are the most pressing challenges related to intellectual property protection today?
12:16  Did the Covid-19 pandemic affect innovation in Switzerland?
13:48  Is a suspension of intellectual property rights during the Covid-19 pandemic a good policy?
16:10 What are the most important novelties of the new Copyright Act from 2020?
17:51 Could the blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens transform our current IP system?
19:33 How is data related to the intellectual property system?
20:44 Is there an industry where data is lately becoming particularly important for new innovations?
22:25 What challenges brings artificial intelligence for the intellectual property system?

Interview: Matthias Niggli
Question Script: Dragan Filimonovic, Matthias Niggli, Christian Rutzer, Till Schmidlin
Production: dropZone-Productions
Edited: Studio Frich

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