Blog
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The L’Oréal Principle: How the EU Leverages Its Single Market for Its Trade Policy Objectives
Products of the skincare company L’Oréal have been marketed over the years using the self-reassuring tag line “because you’re worth it”. The EU has recently launched a new line of trade...
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The Hidden Complexities of the UK Government Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
The publication of the UK government’s Northern Ireland Protocol Bill appears to have brought UK-EU relations to a new low ebb, with trade war an increasing concern to businesses. Below the...
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The Relevance of Intellectual Property for Pharmaceutical Innovation
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...
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Check Mate to the Rules of the Game
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...
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Intellectual Property in Services Sectors
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...
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TTC and Pre-Empting the Next Transatlantic Tech War
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...
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While We Look at the TTC Progress, a Risk May Rise Elsewhere
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...
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The Data Act Proposal: Assessing the EU’s Latest Digital Policy Experiment
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...
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Intellectual Property and COVID-19
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...
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Power to Ukraine: Rebuilding Ukraine’s Electricity System
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...