Vient de paraître : Nouveaux écrans, nouvelle régulation ?

Pierre-François DOCQUIR, Muriel HANOT, (Dir.), Nouveaux écrans, nouvelle régulation ?, Collection droit des technologies, Larcier, 272 p., paru en …

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 …

Is R&D cooperation a steppingstone to collusion?

In 2010, the European Commission has revised its rules for the assessment of co-operation agreements between competitors. Some of …

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 …

Mixing patents and trade secrets for complex innovations

  In our latest working paper, Francis Bloch and myself analyze the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex …

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 …

The economics of copyright protection

A few weeks ago (September 14, 2013), the blog American Thinker published quite a vocal piece, entitled “Copyright Strangulation”, condemning …

How entrepreneurial should the state be?

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

Innovation and economic growth

The central role that innovation plays in driving economic growth is well known thanks to the pioneering work of …

How to make innovation drive economic growth?

The central role that innovation plays in driving economic growth is well known thanks to the pioneering work of …