Insights
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Reforming Standard Essential Patents: What do the Expert Bodies Say?
The European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), which have been covered in several blogs by ECIPE scholars, has caused a lot of surprise in the expert community. One...
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The EU Impact Assessment of Standard Essential Patents Reform: Nice Try But Please Try Again!
The EU process to reform its policy on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) should have been much better. When the proposal was unveiled in April this year, many observers and experts were surprised –...
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The Economic Value of Standard Essential Patents and the Costs of the Commission’s SEPs proposal
The European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) puts SEP holders against SEP implementers. The logic is simple: since the economic contribution of implementers is...
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Power, Cooperation and Standard Essential Patents – Reviewing the European Commission’s Bid for Reform
The European Commission’s proposal to upend the current system for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) have prompted many reflections and a good amount of criticism. One perspective that...
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Promoting a “GVCs for LDCs” Approach: The Case of Digital Certification for Organic Products
As in any other day of the year, billions of people around the world woke up on the 1st of October and started their daily routine with a cup of coffee. Except that on that day - the International...
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The Importance of Digital Standards for Services Trade
Digital services trade is a fundamental and growing element of our shared economic future. But policy makers are disrupting cross-border ecosystems by adopting divergent governance approaches. To...
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Summer Reading 2023 – Book Recommendations from ECIPE
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte Professor Sarotte’s book is necessary reading to understand one of the most controversial diplomatic...
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The Urban Legend of the EU’s Digital Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?
It is not strange to think that the digital economy is made by and for American companies. Google is the window to the Internet, we buy through Amazon, and send messages via WhatsApp. According to...
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Go Back to the Drawing Board! The Commission’s Leaked Patent Reform Would Be Bad for Technological Development and Europe
I have finally got around to reading the leaked draft proposal by the European Commission to overhaul the system of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) by creating a new framework for determining...
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Europe Against the Machine
This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto. “Never send a human to do a machine's job” said Agent Smith in The Matrix as he fought to defend their technological dominance...