About this episode

This episode explores the impact of intellectual property on winter sports, including equipment and competition experiences.

Send us Fan Mail To mark World IP Day’s sports theme, we explore how intellectual property quietly shapes the world of winter sport, from performance and safety to sponsorship and visibility. Drawing on stories from the Olympics and beyond, we unpack how patents, trade secrets, and open standards influence everything from the equipment athletes use to the way competitions are run and experienced by fans. In this episode, we cover: How parabolic skis transformed technique and speedThe patented...

Topics covered

• intellectual property
• sports innovation
• winter sports
• patents
• sponsorship
• athlete equipment

Mentioned in this episode

Products: parabolic skis

Books & works: Olympics

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