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 …

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 …

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 …

The smartphone patent wars and competition policy

Last Wednesday (April 18, 2012), Lucy Koh, a US District Court Judge, may have paved the way towards a …

Mobile industry in Google’s cross-hairs

Though a late-comer to the mobile market, Google has nonetheless made a rather spectacular entrance.  Android, its operating system …

Network effects and expectations: the Million Dollar Homepage story

(Updated 25/02/2013) Network effects are ubiquitous in the digital economy. They refer to the idea that users prefer to be …

LEGO: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Regarding intellectual property management, LEGO may seem to suffer from some form of personality disorder. Over the years, the company …