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By Mr Maarten Meulenbelt, Sidley Austin LLP* In the pharmaceutical industry, the role of Intellectual Property (IP) as an incentive for product development is particularly important: each investor...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development.  “The king is an attacking piece, use it!” said the Austrian chess...

By Pascal Kerneis, European Services Forum It remains difficult for many reasons to identify the importance of intellectual property in services sectors, and whether this lack of knowledge might...

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Robin Baker Admittedly, the trading relationship between the EU and the U.S. has never been an easy one. Since the late 1960s, commercial disputes and conflicting agendas...

As top policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic gather near Paris on Sunday for the second ministerial meeting of the EU-US Trade & Technology Council (TTC), representatives will seek to find...

ECIPE just launched a new research program on the economic impacts of the EU’s Data Act proposal. We hereby invite interested stakeholders to support our research by providing information on...

By Dr. Kevin E. Noonan, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP The current SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID pandemic is the greatest global health threat caused by a virus since the influenza...

This piece was co-authored with Dr.-Ing. Manuel Sánchez Jiménez, the former Team Leader for Smart Grids at the European Commission and currently Senior Advisor to European Union Agency for the...

By Prof. Dr. David Taylor, University College London Introduction In the absence of a vaccine much of the positive progress on combating HIV/AIDS recorded in the last 20 years has been due to the...

The response of the West to the Russian war in Ukraine has been to isolate the Russian economy. And although it might seem like they have been successful, given the scale and severity of the...