French Abstract: Qu’est-ce que la « propriété intellectuelle » ? Si les réponses à cette question foisonnent, il semble qu’aucune n’ait radicalement répondu de manière à défricher le terrain qui la sous-tend : quel est le véritable être-en-soi de la « propriété...

A short time after the Commission has published its proposal for a regulation on the unitary patent, we have raised some serious concerns with regard to the very legality of the regulation and to the political issue of the governance of the European patent system. Now, some academic studies are...

Under close scrutiny, it appears that the legal basis of the regulation on the unitary patent is at best questionable. At worst, such doubts could very well mean that the regulation is simply illegal. In a situation where the enhanced cooperation procedure is already undergoing two appeals...