4iP Council : Empirical research on European Intellectual Property Rights

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19 September 2018

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Patent Assertion Entities are often negatively portrayed as harmful “patent trolls” that engage in speculative and abusive patent litigation against manufacturing companies. Although mass PAE litigation has mainly been US phenomenon, a recent study…

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Standardization for the Digital Economy: The Issue of Interoperability and Access Under Competition Law

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The article attempts to identify what legal systems are applicable when data is obtained from devices, sent to other devices, and/or distributed to the Cloud, and, ultimately, when it is reused. The article specifically focuses on the application of…

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How significant are SMEs to the EU?

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“You could say that the patent is to design what music theory (solfège) is to music. It is a brilliant language.

To innovate and ignore IP is like sailing a boat without the sea.”

Yann de Kermadec
“Innovative entrepreneurs are central to the digital economy. To succeed they need increased access to finance including equity and venture capital.”

A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe European Commission, 2015
“Society allocates exclusionary rights to patent holders for a simple, compelling reason. In exchange for the disclosure of his invention, the inventor receives the right to be the first to place the invention on the market, and to limit third parties’ ability to use his technology.”

Dr. Sven Bostyn, Univerity of Liverpool & Prof. Nicolas Petit, Liege Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII), University of Liege, 2013
“A key aim of the Digital Single Market Strategy is to establish a supportive investment climate for digital networks, research and innovative business. Setting the right framework conditions will help to mobilise private investment and generate investor confidence.”

A Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe European Commission, 2015
“A patent is not a monopoly in the economic sense because the vast majority of products which are based on a patent cannot be marketed at a monopoly price, for the existence of substitutes on the market allows buyers to choose amongst different products.”

Dr. Sven Bostyn, Univerity of Liverpool & Prof. Nicolas Petit, Liege Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII), University of Liege, 2013
“A patent is not any guarantee at all that the patented technology will gain such massive, traction on the market… simply, patents reward invention, not commercialisation.”

Dr. Sven Bostyn, Univerity of Liverpool & Prof. Nicolas Petit, Liege Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII), University of Liege, 2013
“The various social functions of the patent system are endangered by the rise of … progressive and subtle enlargement of the two exceptions of compulsory licensing.”

Prof. Nicolas Petit, Liege Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII), University of Liege, 2014
“Wages in Europe’s IPR-intensive industries are more than 46% higher than in other industries”

EPO, EUIPO, 2016
“42% of total economic activity in the EU (some €5.7 trillion annually) is generated by IPR-intensive industries”

EPO, EUIPO, 2016

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Technology invention is an arduous and risky creative process that can result in life changing and global transformation. To incentivise investment in successful and potentially transformational technology solutions, and to reward risk, inventors must be able to seek reasonable return for their efforts. Intellectual Property Rights allow inventors to obtain such reward by creating the opportunity to commercialise their inventions. This is not only a fair way to acknowledge the contribution of the technology into the market, but also encourages continuous investment in further research, thus increasing innovation.