Bayer’s aspirin: a lasting success without patent and strong trademark protection

‘The serial painkiller’: this is how the Financial Times (27 oct. 2011, see here) describes the history of aspirin, …

Philip Morris fumes at ‘plain’ packaging plan

  As already reported on ipdigit (see here), Australia aims at adopting a law banning any mention of the …

Premier bilan de l’Hadopi: attendre encore, réformer l’outil ou le mettre à la “poubelle”?

Sous le titre “Hadopi: attendre avant de cliquer ‘poubelle’“, l’éditorial en première page du Monde du 30 septembre 2011 …

What can you find in a cartoon? About the rationale of intellectual property

  I thank a friendly blog (S.I.lex) devoted to IT and IP issues for drawing my attention to the …

Is the US patent system sick? Discussion about ‘Patent Medicine’

On August 15, Google bid $12.5 billion to acquire  the Motorola Mobility mobile phone business. This deal raises a …

“Un euro le mot de Beckett”: la faute au droit d’auteur?

Vendredi dernier (16 sept. 2011), comme chaque semaine, on pouvait lire dans Le Monde des Livres — le supplément …

The Premier League case: not the last case on internal market restrictions before the ECJ

In the Premier League case, the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08) is asked to …

The nascent e-books market: another illicit fragmentation of the internal market?

In the Premier League case now before the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08, see …

Does plain packaging violate trademark law or any other right?

On April 7, 2011, the Federal Government of Australia released the plain packaging design (see the image on the …

Le plagiat de thèse fait des ravages parmi la classe politique en Allemagne

Début mars 2011, le très populaire Ministre allemand de la défense, Mr Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, annonçait sa démission suite …