Insights

By Mr Maarten Meulenbelt, Sidley Austin LLP* In the pharmaceutical industry, the role of Intellectual Property (IP) as an incentive for product development is particularly important: each investor...

By Pascal Kerneis, European Services Forum It remains difficult for many reasons to identify the importance of intellectual property in services sectors, and whether this lack of knowledge might...

Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Robin Baker Admittedly, the trading relationship between the EU and the U.S. has never been an easy one. Since the late 1960s, commercial disputes and conflicting agendas...

As top policymakers from both sides of the Atlantic gather near Paris on Sunday for the second ministerial meeting of the EU-US Trade & Technology Council (TTC), representatives will seek to find...

ECIPE just launched a new research program on the economic impacts of the EU’s Data Act proposal. We hereby invite interested stakeholders to support our research by providing information on...

By Dr. Kevin E. Noonan, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP The current SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID pandemic is the greatest global health threat caused by a virus since the influenza...

By Dr. Christian Häberli, World Trade Institute Products with Geographical Indications (GI) are a common feature of everyday life, from Parma hams to Georgian wine appellations, Swiss Gruyère,...

Russia’s war on Ukraine has started a new discussion about Europe’s energy dependency on Russia. In an upcoming ECIPE policy brief, we develop a conceptual framework and indicators to measure...

In a recent LinkedIn post, my colleague Hosuk Lee-Makiyama asked why so many policymakers in Europe are concerned with digital sovereignty when the vast majority of value added in digital services is...

There is an intimate relation between the single market and intellectual property (IP) in that they both rely fundamentally on economies of scale. One of the advantages of the single market is that...