Paris, June 11, 2015: Shepard Fox promotes European Inventor Awards – Outstanding inventors honored during Award ceremony in Paris

The European Patent Office (EPO) today presented the European Inventor Award 2015 in the heart of Paris. The prestigious annual award, now in its 10th year, honours outstanding inventors who through their work have made an exceptional contribution to social development, technological progress and economic growth. More than 400 guests from the worlds of politics, business and academia attended the award ceremony at the Palais Brongniart, the historical Paris stock Exchange. Shepard Fox – for the third consecutive year – has been in charge of global media relations for the Award, which included taking care of the 60 international journalists that attended the ceremony in Paris, reporting about the Award winners to all parts of the world.

Video on the Award Ceremony

Dublin, May 4, 2015: XL Group and Catlin launch unified brand; Shepard Fox localizes “Insurance for a bold new world” global marketing campaign

Following the completion of XL Group’s acquisition of Catlin Group, the two insurance companies have officially joined operations and today launched a new brand, XL Catlin. A new global marketing campaign, reflecting the greater scale, ambition and opportunity for the combined company to offer risk solutions will launch tomorrow. The new “Insurance for a bold new world” advertisements were adapted by Shepard Fox for the local markets in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil and China, by recreating the copy texts in the respective languages. Shepard Fox also wrote the copy texts for the local versions of the new XL Catlin corporate brochure in the same countries. 

More about new XL Catlin marketing campaign

Munich, April 21, 2015: Twelve inventions that could change the world – Shepard Fox promotes European Inventor Awards in China, Japan, Australia, the US, and across Europe

The European Patent Office (EPO) today announced its finalists for the 2015 European Inventor Awards, honoring brilliant inventions from a range of scientific fields, and hired Shepard Fox to promote Europe’s most prestigious prize for innovation and this year’s nominees around the globe. A dozen finalists are grouped into four categories, including one for non-European inventors; three additional finalists are eligible for a lifetime achievement recognition. One winner will be selected from each category, and then the public can vote on the overall winner, with the awards taking place on June 11 in Paris. – Shepard Fox is in charge of international media relations, which includes local press announcements in finalists’ home countries (UK, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Latvia, Australia, China, Japan, US), and interviews of the finalists with TV, radio, online and print media.

European Inventor Award Website

Munich, April 2, 2015: Shepard Fox helps Infineon Technologies launch new Newsletter4Engineers

Infineon Technologies, one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers, has launched a new newsletter aimed at engineers and developers. Shepard Fox is supporting Infineon in developing and editing the content for the monthly newsletter, turning technical content on modules, microcontrollers and transceivers into news and stories interesting to read. The content is also used for Infineon’s social media channels.

Register for Infineon’s Newsletter4Engineers

Munich, March 23, 2015: Shepard Fox to launch global media campaign announcing the 2015 finalists for the European Inventor Award

For the third consecutive year, Shepard Fox has been commissioned by the European Patent Office to promote the 2015 nominees for the European Inventor Award, Europe’s most prestigious prize for innovation. The 15 finalists for the prize awarded in 5 categories will be announced in April; they will be coming from all over the world. Shepard Fox is preparing the media releases for announcing the nominations globally and in the respective home countries of the finalists. The 2015 winners of the European Inventor Award will be announced during a ceremony in Paris on June 11.

About the European Inventor Award

Tokyo, March 5, 2015: Shepard Fox arranges interviews with Japanese media for the President of the European Patent Office

The number of Japanese patent filings dropped sharply last year. Analysing the decline, the President of the European Patent Office Benoît Battistelli, today spoke to Japanese journalists in Tokyo. Shepard Fox arranged and prepared the interviews with Japanese lead media like The Nikkei and Sankei Shimbun.

Media Coverage Sankei Shimbun, Media Coverage The Nikkei

Brussels, February 26, 2015: Announcing the 2014 global patent filings figures – Shepard Fox organizes international press conference for the European Patent Office

The European Patent Office, Europe’s second largest public service institution, today announced the global 2014 patent filing figures. These figures, broken down by the number of patents filed per country, company and technology sector, are seen as an important indicator for the state of the global economy as they reflect corporate expenditures into R&D. Shepard Fox organized and managed the European Patent Office’s press conference in Brussels attended by 30 correspondents from all over world. Shepard Fox also created the press kits with press releases in 15 different languages, and distributed local press releases to media in Korea, Japan, China, the US, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Poland.

2014 Annual Results of the European Patent Office

Nuremberg, February 24, 2015: Shepard Fox supports GE in promoting the Industrial Internet at Embedded World trade show 

Shepard Fox supports GE in promoting products and solutions enabling the Industrial Internet, a term summarizing how digitalization is transforming manufacturing and production. At the Embedded World trade show in Germany, opening today and featuring the latest “embedded technology” used for industrial automation and drives, Shepard Fox provides media relations support by organizing and managing media tours for trade journalists at the GE booth, by arranging interviews with GE spokespeople, by preparing press kits and distributing media releases on new GE products.

How GE is making the Industrial Internet real

Munich, February 3, 2015: European Patent Office to announce Annual Results on February 26 in Brussels – Shepard Fox prepares global media campaign and international press conference

The European Patent Office (EPO) will announce its Annual Results 2014 on February 26 at a press conference in Brussels. The Annual Results include the global patent filing figures by country, technologies and companies. Patent filings are an economic indicator for R&D activities and the power to innovate. – Shepard Fox will prepare the Annual Results announcement for 15 countries, including Korea, Japan, China and the US. Shepard Fox will also organize the international press conference in Brussels, where EPO President Benoit Battistelli will announce the results.

European Patent Filings in 2014

Munich, January 22, 2015: 10 years of the European Inventor Award – Shepard Fox promotes retrospective of Europe’s highest distinction for inventors 

To celebrate the European Inventor Award’s tenth year, Europe’s highest distinction for inventors worldwide, the European Patent Office (EPO) today launched a retrospective of former finalists and winners of the prize, a series of videos promoted via social media and the EPO website. Shepard Fox supports the European Patent Office by a media campaign across Europe, announcing the start of the retrospective that will feature outstanding inventors for the next three months. 

European Inventor Award Retrospective