What can we expect from 2015 in the field of IP and ICT?

Starting from this post I will try to regularly update you, IPdigIT readers, on the latest legislative developments taking …

Apple Inc. en justice: quand les droits intellectuels rencontrent le droit des contrats

La vie des petites et grandes entreprises, en particulier de celles qui sont innovantes, est parsemée de difficultés et …

The risk of patent trolls in the U.S. and in Europe: a sequel to a never ending story

The issue of ‘patent assertion entities’ (PAEs) or ‘patent trolls’, i. e. of companies that acquire patent portfolios to …

Do patent rights facilitate or impede cumulative innovation?

  Most innovations are the result of a cumulative R&D process, i.e., their production requires the combination of knowledge …

To induce innovation, should we praise the prizes?

Innovation is a tricky economic activity: its input (R&D) is very costly, its production process is highly uncertain and …

Are non-practicing entities (NPEs) aka ‘patent trolls’ operating in Europe?

Hee-Eun Kim, an associate with Covington & Burling LLP,  where I work as Of Counsel, has prepared a very …

The smartphone patent wars: nothing really surprising…

(This is an updated and slightly modified version of this post, published on April 25, 2012.) In April 2012, …

Will ‘Patent trolls’ soon appear on the European market?

It is under this title that a series of articles (published in the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique on …

Markets for technologies: do they really work?

It is widely agreed that one of the main economic roles of IP law is to create exclusive rights: exclusivity …

Les ‘patent trolls’ bientôt sur le marché européen? Mise à jour fin 2014

C’est sous ce titre qu’un dossier du journal La Libre (19 oct. 2013) préparé par Laurent Lambrecht (voir ici) se …