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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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How Should UK Trade Policy Respond to Global Developments?
By: David HenigTrade policy is in flux, moving from previous norms of trade liberalisation and relatively strong institutions, to fragmentation and great power...
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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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The Importance of Digital Standards for Services Trade
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityDigital services trade is a fundamental and growing element of our shared economic future. But policy makers are disrupting cross-border ecosystems...
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Summer Reading 2023 – Book Recommendations from ECIPE
By: Fredrik ErixonNot One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte Professor Sarotte’s book is necessary reading to...
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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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What Is the Reality of the Changing Globalisation?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: David HenigBy acclamation in Europe and USA, globalisation is either dead or fundamentally changing. Yet much resulting government action, such as subsidies and...
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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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US Shift on Trade Driven by Concerns About China, Trump
This piece was co-authored with Keith M. Rockwell, Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hinrich Foundation. The...