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 …

Browser War: The Return

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

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 …

Still on Pinckney: end of the story?

A few weeks have passed since the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its decision in Case C-170/12 Pinckney (here) …

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 …

Why does Microsoft keep chasing Google’s taillights with Bing?

Four years ago, Microsoft released a new search engine: Bing. It was aimed to be an improved version of …

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 …

How entrepreneurial should the state be?

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

What is the future of BlackBerry?

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