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 …

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 …

Réforme du droit d’auteur au Royaume-Uni : vers un changement de dynamique ?

Quand on soutient une approche équilibrée du droit d’auteur, on a rarement l’occasion de rapporter de bonnes nouvelles. Celle-ci …

The Premier League case: not the last case on internal market restrictions before the ECJ

In the Premier League case, the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08) is asked to …

The nascent e-books market: another illicit fragmentation of the internal market?

In the Premier League case now before the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08, see …

Markets for technology: big hopes and … big difficulties

    (Original publication: October 2010; updated in November 2012) It is widely agreed that one of the main …