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


Fidelice Opany

IP and Competition lawyer

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Summary: 'What the ex-ante benchmark reveals about the reasonable price for SEP licences' by Pekka Sääskilahti and Andrew Tuffin

by Fidelice Opany

Summary: 'What the ex-ante benchmark reveals about the reasonable price for SEP licences' by Pekka Sääskilahti and Andrew Tuffin

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Finding an efficiency-oriented approach to scrutinise the essentiality of potential SEPs: A Survey

by Giuseppe Colangelo

Finding an efficiency-oriented approach to scrutinise the essentiality of potential SEPs: A Survey

Webinar Description: The assessment of SEPs’ true essentiality is a topic that has gain significant interest among policy makers. As the European Commission is expected to deliver a legislative proposal to promote an efficient and sustainable SEP licensing ecosystem, the webinar aims to provide a review of the literature on different mechanisms that could be used to determine the essentiality of a patent. Indeed, whilst any policy intervention stems from the need to ensure a reasonable balance among accuracy, transparency, and cost of the essentiality checks, the available approaches score differently in terms of their efficiency.

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Batman Forever? How Trademarks affect Reuse in the Comics Industry

Batman Forever? How Trademarks affect Reuse in the Comics Industry

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The GitHub Copilot Case

The GitHub Copilot Case

Going from Software Protection to Artificial Intelligence Authorship

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Patent Eligibility of Computer-Implemented Inventions at the European Patent Office

Patent Eligibility of Computer-Implemented Inventions at the European Patent Office

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2022 Winners

2022 Winners

4iP Council is pleased to announce the winning papers and authors in the 2022 4iP Council Research Awards

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