More and more companies use patents to keep a distance from competitors or to open up common markets by cross licensing. This raises both legal and practical questions, which patent law expert Christoph Jonas sheds light on.

In its recent extraordinary Assembly in November 2021, the WHO agreed to "launch a process to develop a historic global agreement on prevention, preparedness and response to pandemics", which leads us to raise the importance of having a global treaty on this issue, not only of course, in our condition as human beings, but from the point of view of our condition as lawyers dedicated to intellectual property.

A vintage baseball card of Hall-of-Fame shortstop Honus Wagner reportedly sold for a record $3.25 million last October in the midst of a pandemic-fueled surge in collectibles and memorabilia sales.  Produced by American Tobacco Company between 1909 and 1911 as a cigarette box insert, only around 50 copies of the card still exist in the world today as Wagner cut the production of his card short.

As you may know, in January of 2021 was announced that Google and the French publishers achieved a new agreement with the objective to remunerate the editors for the extracts of their news that Google shows in its platform.

A few weeks ago, we all wake up with the notice of the legal suit against Facebook from 12 states and the federal government of United States, for allegedly breakup the antitrust law, by acquiring the Apps of Instagram and WhatsApp