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Reforming Standard Essential Patents: What do the Expert Bodies Say?
The European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), which have been covered in several blogs by ECIPE scholars, has caused a lot of surprise in the expert community. One...
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The EU impact assessment of Standard Essential Patents reform: Nice try but please try again!
The EU process to reform its policy on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) should have been much better. When the proposal was unveiled in April this year, many observers and experts were surprised –...
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The Economic Value of Standard Essential Patents and the Costs of the Commission’s SEPs proposal
The European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) puts SEP holders against SEP implementers. The logic is simple: since the economic contribution of implementers is...
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Power, cooperation and Standard Essential Patents – Reviewing the European Commission’s bid for reform
The European Commission’s proposal to upend the current system for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) have prompted many reflections and a good amount of criticism. One perspective that...
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Go back to the drawing board! The Commission’s leaked patent reform would be bad for technological development and Europe
I have finally got around to reading the leaked draft proposal by the European Commission to overhaul the system of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) by creating a new framework for determining...
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Episode 86: IP in the EU FTA’s Series: The Role of IP in Fostering Innovation and Global Competitiveness of European Industries with Jörgen Warborn
In this online conversation Jacki Davis talks to Jörgen Warborn, a Member of the European Parliament and its Committee on International Trade. They discuss the importance of...
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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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Episode 81: IP in the EU FTA’s Series: IP to Tackle Counterfeit Goods Trade with Neil Narriman
In this online conversation, Jacki Davis talks to Neil Narriman, the President of FESI, the European Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry, which supported the work on a recent ECIPE...
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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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Episode 80: IP in the EU FTA’s Series: Intellectual Property in Services Sectors with Pascal Kerneis
In this online conversation, Jacki Davis talks to Pascal Kerneis, a Managing director of the European Services Forum - ESF, who wrote an insert for the recent ECIPE study: "The Benefits of...