Patents and/or secrets? Questioning the best mode disclosure requirement

This post describes the preliminary results of an ongoing research project with my colleague Francis Bloch from Paris School …

Human embryos at the bar: the blurring lines between law and science in patent protection

The CJEU decision on Oliver Brüstle vs Greenpeace (C-34/10) – prepared by Rossana Ducato, post-doc researcher at UCLouvain and …

Innovation et digitalisation

En préambule du 22ème Congrès des Economistes, qui se tiendra à Bruxelles le 30 novembre prochain, je vous livre …

What is ‘patent holdup’? Should it be regulated? If yes, how?

On January 6, 2016, the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII) organized a half-day conference around the question: “Regulating …

Incumbents and the sharing economy: the example of GM

It is safe to say that the automotive industry experiences some turmoil; cars themselves, as well as the way …

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 …

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. …

Do standard setting organizations’ rules stand in the way of innovation?

This article is the third part of a three-piece series that discusses the incentives and the challenges for firms …

Open-source to the rescue: innovative ways of dealing with the carbon crisis

This article is the second part of a three-piece series that discusses the incentives and the challenges for firms to …

Opening up knowledge management

A few decades ago, traditional IP protection has started to coexist with a more cooperative line towards knowledge management. …