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 …

What to think of ‘patent trolls’? The return

In a previous post last year, I was presenting different views on so-called patent trolls, which are sometimes defined as …

What can you find in a cartoon? About the rationale of intellectual property

  I thank a friendly blog (S.I.lex) devoted to IT and IP issues for drawing my attention to the …

What are the global intellectual property issues today?

Every two years the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) publishes its blockbuster: the roadmap on IPR issues. The 2012 …

On parle des Patent Trolls à la radio…

J’ai eu l’occasion de m’exprimer jeudi dernier (23/12/2010) à propos des patent trolls sur les ondes de la RTBF …

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 …

‘Pay for delay’ deals in the pharmaceutical industry

(Edited version, October 11, 2013) ‘Pay for delay’ deals are commonplace in the pharmaceutical industry; they involve branded drug …

What is the link between competition and innovation?

In an article published in 2004 in The Economist (and later reproduced in the book ‘The Future of Technology’ …

R&D cooperation or competition?

R&D cooperation across firms is often celebrated as it allows firms to better manage the R&D process by pooling …