Collaborative standardisation and SEP Licensing: a EU policy perspective / G. Bruzzone & S. Capozzi -- Economic considerations on mergers, IPR licensing and litigation : A EU perspective / C. Caffarra & P. Régibeau -- Alternative dispute resolution in FRAND licensing : economic considerations...

This paper examines a number of government policies related to competition or intellectual property and affecting innovation for their welfare effects. Its premise is that the enhancement of social welfare is included among the purposes of competition and intellectual-property laws. It also...

Exclusions to patentable subject matter are driven primarily by the courts. In this paper, I examine how the courts in Canada and the United States have arrived at their various exclusions to subject matter eligibility. I argue that judicial exclusions from subject matter eligibility ought to be...

Eli Lilly recently sued Canada for $500 million under investor-state dispute mechanisms, due to Canadian court decisions invalidating Lilly’s patents. Canada’s decisions were based in what is sometimes known as the “promise doctrine.” Where a patent applicant promises a certain utility...