[eng] Intellectual property rights have been established at the outset in order to protect the inventor against imitation. At the same time, economic litterature considers that this system favours information diffusion and contributes to the dynamic of technical progress. But nowadays IPR are...

Si jusqu'à présent l'Internet est entré dans les habitudes des agents économiques pour produire, vendre et acheter, il occupe une place relativement nouvelle dans un domaine qui était jusqu'à présent principalement du ressort des firmes dans leur organisation interne : l'innovation et la...

The aim of this article is to analyse new problems concerning intellectual property in the Information and Communication Technologies and to show that intellectual property rights are a way to protect innovation but also a tool to be offensive towards competitors. Particularly, we explore the...

In this article the aim is to analyse new conflicts between technical standardization developed in Standard Setting Organization (SSO) and intellectual property rights. More precisely, we start with few past examples of conflicts (GSM and other standards) and we put in light the tremendous...