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
4 Reasons 4 Design Rights
Interactive guide to help European SMEs unlock all the value of patents.
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4 Reasons 4 Trademarks
Interactive guide to help European SMEs unlock all the value of registering trademarks.
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How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets
by De RASSENFOSSE, Gaitan
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Categories: SMEs, Policy
Which IP strategies do young highly innovative firms choose?
by VEUGELERS, Reinhilde / SCHNEIDER, Cédric
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Categories: SMEs, Policy
Standardisation and SEP Licensing: A EU Policy Perspective, The Interplay Between Competition Law and Intellectual Property – An International Perspective
This essay by Ginevra Bruzzone and Sara Capozzi is published in G. Muscolo and M. Tavassi (eds.), The Interplay Between Competition Law and Intellectual Property – An International Perspective, Wolters Kluwer, 2019.
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Categories: Standardisation, IP and Competition Law, European Commission
Trends in patenting
by European Patent Office
Infographic summarising key patenting trends at the EPO in 2018
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Categories: Patent System and Patent Quality, Infographics
Gender Diversity in IP Law
by 4ip Council
For International Women's Day 2019, 4iP Council partnered with Managing IP to explore themes of diversity and women and innovation in Europe and beyond. This post-survey report provides an overview of what respondents had to say and includes interviews with women working in the IP field.
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Categories: IP Management, Intellectual property
Economic efficiency and field-of-use pricing of SEP licenses under FRAND terms
by Dr Eskil Ullberg, PhD, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Virginia, USA and Head of the Trade in Ideas Program, Institute of Management of Innovation and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
This summary paper is concerned with patented technology markets, and whether price differentiation based on field-of-use is economically efficient. The focus is on the licensing of SEPs on FRAND terms and conditions, including also the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and the economic growth in the digital economy, especially for SMEs. The central argument proposed is that the difference in the value between usages of standardised technologies determines whether a single price for all usages or specific field-of-use prices are economically efficient. The full version of this paper will appear in the forthcoming issue of the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, Volume 9, 2019.
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Categories: SMEs, Standardisation, Licensing, Digital Single Market, FRAND
Exploring fundamental research tech transfer at CERN
We interview Bernard Denis of the CERN knowledge transfer team
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Unwired Planet v Huawei: the UK Court of Appeal’s judgment. Webinar slides presented by the Rt. Hon. Sir Robin Jacob and Richard Vary
This webinar took place on 13 February 2019 and offered a summary of this significant court decision, detail on the contract law basis for FRAND and a discussion on the jurisdiction issues surrounding a national court determining global FRAND rates.