Intellectual Property Rights at the Bilateral and Multilateral Levels: How to Reach Consistency?

This article is the third part of a three-piece series written by Lukas Vanhonnaeker (for the first and second …

How Does Increased Investor Protection Enhance the Dissemination of Knowledge?

This article is the second part of a three-piece series written by Lukas Vanhonnaeker (for the first part, see …

Does Intellectual Property Qualify as a Foreign Direct Investment?

This article is the first part of a three-piece series written by Lukas Vanhonnaeker. Lukas Vanhonnaeker is a doctoral …

They may know it’s Xmas, but do they know there’s IP involved?

As Christmas is drawing nigh, I found it fun appropriate to collect a number of “IP Xmas stories”. As you will …

Time to fix patents, says The Economist, but how?

This picture illustrated the cover of the August 8th-14th 2015 issue of The Economist. In the leading article (p. …

TTIP and TPP under scrutiny: how to assess the intellectual property chapter

Last week, several demonstrations against the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) were organized throughout Europe, in particular in Berlin …

La e-réputation des entreprises: lente à construire, rapide à détruire?

La réputation des entreprises est un actif incorporel important, quoiqu’invisible dans la comptabilité, ce serait même selon certains “l’actif …

A New Journey Among the Global Intellectual Property Issues

Once again, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has published its ‘Intellectual Property Roadmap’ which lists the global intellectual …

An Opinion on the right allocation of the fair remuneration for reprography

On June 11, 2015, the Advocate-General Pedro Cruz Villalón delivered his Opinion in the HP Belgium v. Reprobel case …

The scope of “copyleft“ effect: What’s right and what’s “left“? (part II – Triggering “copyleft”)

As was described in the first part, “copyleft” can be translated into simple words as an obligation to license …