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 …

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, …

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 …

An ‘uncommon’ riddle

Here is just a riddle, which I ask you to solve. What do the following stories have in common? …