Secrecy vs. patents. How to choose?

Because they blossom in winter and display striking red and green colors, poinsettias are ideal for Christmas decorating. Yet, …

Where to sue in a case of alleged online copyright infringement?

Readers who follow all things copyright will remember Case C-170/12 Pinckney, an exciting reference from the French Court of Cassation concerning …

Mixing patents and trade secrets for complex innovations

  In our latest working paper, Francis Bloch and myself analyze the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex …

MyMicroInvest, a Belgian crowdfunding platform for European entrepreneurs

This is the third post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …

Fixing the software patent problem

In an article published  the New York Times on October 7, 2012, Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr give a critical view of …

The economics of copyright protection

A few weeks ago (September 14, 2013), the blog American Thinker published quite a vocal piece, entitled “Copyright Strangulation”, condemning …

CJEU asked to clarify copyright questions regarding online infringement, transformation and … exhaustion

With autumn officially started, it is time to get back to school, buy a “bouquet of newly sharpened pencils” …

How entrepreneurial should the state be?

  In a chapter that I wrote in 2008 for the book “Intellectual Property and the Theories of Justice” …