EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance
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Plato, Love, and the Philosophical Problem of Europe’s AI Act
By: Fredrik ErixonPlato’s Symposium is a good place to start a discussion about the EU’s forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Act – or AI Act. Before you choke on...
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What Do We Know and What Don’t We Know About the Consequences of the Revised Product Liability Directive?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human CapitalBy: Fredrik ErixonThe new Product Liability Directive, proposed by the European Commission in 2022, is now on its final stretch: it’s now in the trialogue and a...
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Reforming Standard Essential Patents: What do the Expert Bodies Say?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs), which have been covered in several blogs by ECIPE scholars, has...
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The EU Impact Assessment of Standard Essential Patents Reform: Nice Try But Please Try Again!
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Dyuti PandyaThe EU process to reform its policy on Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) should have been much better. When the proposal was unveiled in April this...
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The Economic Value of Standard Essential Patents and the Costs of the Commission’s SEPs proposal
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectTags: China EU Information and Communications Technology intellectual property patents R&D standard essential patents USBy: Oscar GuineaThe European Commission’s proposal to reform Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) puts SEP holders against SEP implementers. The logic is simple:...
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Power, Cooperation and Standard Essential Patents – Reviewing the European Commission’s Bid for Reform
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonThe European Commission’s proposal to upend the current system for Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) have prompted many reflections and a...
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Promoting a “GVCs for LDCs” Approach: The Case of Digital Certification for Organic Products
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Lucian CernatAs 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...
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How Valuable Is WTO Transparency: The 15 Trillion Dollar Question
By: Lucian CernatLucian Cernat is Head of Global Regulatory Cooperation and International Procurement Negotiations at DG TRADE. The author would like to thank Peter...
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The EU and Mercosur Escape Room: How to Unlock the Association Agreement
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance EU-Mercosur Project Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Latin America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Oscar GuineaThe Association Agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries – Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – remains in limbo. The...
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The Critical Importance of the Single Market for Europe’s Global Trade Performance
By: Lucian CernatThe Single Market just turned 30. It is one of the EU’s greatest achievements and the success of the Single Market is built on the fundamental...
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The Urban Legend of the EU’s Digital Economy: Where Do We Go From Here?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIt 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...
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Go Back to the Drawing Board! The Commission’s Leaked Patent Reform Would Be Bad for Technological Development and Europe
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Innovation, IP, and Human Capital Trade and IP ProjectBy: Fredrik ErixonI have finally got around to reading the leaked draft proposal by the European Commission to overhaul the system of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs)...