the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers …, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however be seen as a threat for … licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …

We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

fonctionnement, et de l'évolution du système de brevet tel qu'il est maintenant structuré par les TRIPS (au sein de l'OMC). Nous … définissons et analysons l'économie post-TRIPS, comme nouvelle structuration des relations économiques internationales modifiées … théorique et empirique sur les TRIPS et sur l'évolution du système de propriété intellectuelle et les capacités de développement …

separate the notion of expression -- covered by copyright -- from the meanings it creates? Isn't meaning heavily dependent on … the concept of brand? And if so, how do copyright and trademark institutions work together to stimulate and promote … have historically been covered by copyright generate specific types of externality, both positive and negative, giving rise …

copyright, a key institution of the creative industries. One factor affecting the value of copyright stems from the broadband … roll-out, wherein copyright enforcement costs have become higher than the estimated benefits of copyright. This paper … analyzes the causes of this situation and suggests how a graduated response to infringers may durably decrease copyright …

Internet. We are taking advantage of the digital world's specific rules to propose a theory of trading & sharing unified. A … function based money is created as a world-wide currency; ⊔ (pronounced /k^p/). We argue that our system discourage speculation …

protection across industries to appropriate innovation. …