This article examines the use of covenants non to compete in employment contracts, clauses which raise the issue of firm intangible assets appropriation and the sharing of the rent with the employees. It relies on the recent theoretical developments that show how the law can ensure innovation...

This paper proposes a review of the book « Droit et Economie de la propriété intellectuelle » (Intellectual property law and economics) (edited by Frison-Roche and A. Abello, 2005) that gathers 17 contributions of lawyers and Economists. We present the main and strong argument of this...