The European Union (EU) does not yet have the U.S. equivalent of Delaware; that is, the EU does not yet have a place where it is fairly common to incorporate, regardless of where business is done. Recently, there has been much debate among European states (and legal scholars) in the corporate law...

Over the past few decades, many paradigm shifts have changed our view of the interrelationship of science and law. Future developments promise that wireless devices will continue to become simultaneously less expensive and more powerful. As distributed and mesh theories are being applied to...

The pharmaceutical market in Europe, in its present circumstances, is not organized according to the principles of free trade to which other products are subjected. Under this situation, the owners of trade-marks have tried to develop price and market strategies consistent with their interests...

The attached piece, published in a Belgian online law review, is an excerpt from the author's PhD dissertation completed at KU Leuven. This portion deals with empirical data of spectrum usage in Brussels and analysis of the data in the context of wireless spectrum allocation and regulation. We...

This Commentary discusses Case C-191/01 P of the European Court of Justice, who refused to allow the Community-wide registration of the trademark DOUBLEMINT. The Court found that the word DOUBLEMINT was descriptive of the characteristics of the gum and in violation of Article 7(1)(c) of...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is making moves to get into the world of Internet governance. Many haven't heard of the ITU, and this essay provides some historical background by first looking at the events that took place 100 years ago at the time of the sinking of the Titanic....

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is renegotiating its treaty with the 193 countries of the world, and it hopes to expand from the telecommunications arena into the Internet. However, there’s one major problem with this shift in mandate: The ITU is a closed organization and has...

In this paper, we present a broadband deployment framework describing how “the next 5 billion” may be connected to the Internet in the future. This framework identifies the most promising Internet technologies and the areas where they should be deployed. To summarize, we see wireless...

Ongoing efforts to legally define cloud computing and regulate separate parts of the Internet are unlikely to address underlying concerns about data security and privacy. Data localization initiatives, led primarily by European countries, could actually bring the cloud to the ground and make the...

The french fry was NOT invented in France, but in Belgium. This short paper, written in Dutch, describes the history of the french fry and explains why it's called the french fry despite being introduced to Americans in Belgium. Spoiler: the reason is that World War I soldiers in French-speaking...