Research & Webinars
Here we provide a number of reports and research summaries related to SMEs and innovation. You will find additional materials in our main research section.
Papers, briefs and publications
The Viability of FRAND: How the Seminal Microsoft Ruling Could Impact the Value of Standard Essential Patents and the Future of Telecom Standards
by Bowman Heiden, Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) – December 2015
Using the landmark Microsoft ruling, this paper addresses the viability of F/RAND policies to regulate the equilibrium between patent holdup and freeriding (or patent holdout) in the context of telecommunication standards.
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Categories: Standardisation
French physicist and inventor Jacques Lewiner
4iP Council meets renowned French physicist and inventor Jacques Lewiner, Laureate of the French Academy of Sciences and Knight of the ‘Légion d’Honneur’.
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The varied multiple functions of patents
by 4iP Council
This paper details, through the use of recent examples, ten different ways businesses can benefit from patents other than by practising them.
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Categories: Patent System and Patent Quality, SMEs, IP Enforcement, Licensing
Investor’s perspective
Didier Tranchier is the Founder and President of ADELIT, a French angel investment company with a portfolio of forty technology companies. 4iP Council spoke to Didier about patent value.
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Perspectives on starting-up in France from eBlink founder, Alain Rolland
4iP Council explores the experience of French telecom start-up EBlink as it markets a ground breaking mobile antennae solution to global tech giants.
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The economic impacts of computer-implemented inventions at the European Patent Office
by Rainer Frietsch, Peter Neuhäusler, Klaus-J. Melullis, Oliver Rothengatter, Sonia Conchi
This study analyses how a change in the patent system towards abolishing patent protection for computer-implemented inventions would affect the international competitiveness of German and European firms.
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Categories: Patent System and Patent Quality
Tanya Ewing, FRSA
Tanya Ewing is an award winning Scottish entrepreneur and a successful inventor. Voted 'British Female Inventor of the Year 2008', she created the real-time energy monitor and display system called "Ewgeco" and founded a company called Tayeco to commercialise her idea.
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Adrienne Corboud Fumagalli
Vice President Innovation and Technology Transfer at EPFL in Lausanne shares her experience with 4iP. (Photo: Michael Stahl)
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Patent = monopoly: a legal fiction
by Sven Bostyn, Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Liverpool Law School and Nicolas Petit, Professor of Law, University of Liege, December 2013
This paper explores terminological confusion and historical misunderstanding of ’monopoly’ rights in patent law as distinct from the meaning of a market monopoly in antitrust theory.