La brevetabilité des méthodes commerciales est aujourd'hui un enjeu majeur dans le monde de l'Internet. Elle suscite … e-commerce et du e-finance, mais aussi sur la stratégie des entreprises et leur emprise sur la concurrence et l'innovation …

(EPO) one the other hand have the same point of view by granting software patents. We put in light the crucial decisions …In this paper we explore the evolution of the software industry and the increasing importance of patent protection … in Europe. Furthermore, we also focus our attention on the effects of the intense use of industrial property on software …

How do financial markets respond to firms' efforts at innovation ? To answer this question, we measure innovation by …. Whilst standard regression techniques find a positive relationship between innovation and growth, quantile regression … and show that these firms owe a lot of their success to their previous efforts at innovation. However, there are also …

how complex patents are. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of all identified functions of patents and of … the main strategic implications of such a complex picture. We first survey the main patent functions : innovation … protection, functions related to trade and finance, defensive roles, and patent as an input in the innovation process. We then …

, the legislation on innovation of each country, patents deposited and cases of technology transfer are presented. The … Universidade de La Rochelle (ULR) (France) in relation to the activities of innovation management, intellectual property (IP) and … regarding the legislation on innovation, from the databases of the universities, and from an interview with the director of the …

, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however be seen as a threat for …Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. By contrast, we argue how IP law is at … the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers …