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
Signs of Convergence between the US and Europe on Law and Policy relating to Standard Essential Patents?
by Vincent Angwenyi
This paper looks at the balance of interests between patent holders and implementors in recent communications in the US and Europe. The Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in a speech given on the 10th of November expressed an opinion which is indicative of a shift in the DOJ policy on various issues revolving around Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) that have been committed to licensing on Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms. The AAGs speech was delivered not long before the much-anticipated European Commission Communication on the EU approach to SEPs (Brussels, 29.11.2017).
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Categories: Patent System and Patent Quality, European Commission, FRAND
Patent rights in a climate of intellectual property rights skepticism - Summary
by Haris Tsilikas, Research Associate at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Summary of a paper by the Hon. Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Acting Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission
A movement is underway to dilute U.S. patents, which have recently been the object of unprecedented criticism. U.S. policymakers lack clear guideposts for evaluating this criticism. Further, some emerging economies are at a crossroads in deciding how to treat proprietary technology, and they look at this U.S. debate through the prism of their own history and economic pressures. This Article defends robust patent rights based on evidence about the relationship between patents and innovation. Given the rich innovation in markets where claimed patent-related problems are most prevalent, the cautious, informed and correct response is incremental, targeted adjustment. Patents should remain a central feature of U.S. technology policy.
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Categories: Patent System and Patent Quality, IP Enforcement, Standardisation, Digital Single Market
Access to All infographic
by 4ip Council
Infographic comparing the differences and efficiencies between Access to All and License to All
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Categories: IP Enforcement, Licensing, Infographics
Developing the code of practice for the European Court of Patents
Alice Pezard is an international arbitrator. She is also a former Judge at the French ‘Cour de Cassation’, France’s highest judiciary court, and a former President of the Chamber of Economic Regulation and Intellectual Property at the Paris Court of Appeal.
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Copyright in the digital environment: the DSM strategy and the challenges ahead
by Ginevra Bruzzone
This paper seeks to identify some shared views and provide a useful benchmark for policy making on the topic of the digital transformation and the EU legal framework for copyright and related issues.