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Will ‘Patent trolls’ soon appear on the European market?

By 18 November 2013 100

It is under this title that a series of articles (published in the Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique on October, 19 2013 and prepared by Laurent Lambrecht; see here) wondered if the future unitary patent and unified patent court might attract “trolls” in Europe. “The risk is not negligible“: this is my answer, summarized in the […]

Browser War: The Return

By 10 November 2013 0

This is the fourth post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post (originally written by Fanny Avaux, Maxime Georgin, Marie-Laure Le Déodic & Sophie Naert) has been honed and complemented by Olivier Simons.   The first browser war took place in the late 1990s when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer replaced Netscape’s […]

Beware! Privateers patrol these patent waters.

By 3 June 2013 24

In 1572, Queen Elizabeth I of England commissioned Francis Drake to sail for America and encouraged him to plunder Spanish vessels on his way. Drake had thus all the attributes of a pirate, except that he was not working for his own account but for a government. This type of pirate was known as a […]