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
Finding an efficiency-oriented approach to scrutinise the essentiality of potential SEPs: A Survey
by Giuseppe Colangelo
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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The GitHub Copilot Case
Going from Software Protection to Artificial Intelligence Authorship
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2022 Winners
4iP Council is pleased to announce the winning papers and authors in the 2022 4iP Council Research Awards