Rome [ENA] EU is trying to clarify principles around the licensing of standard-essential patent and a recent report concerning this issue is very stimulating. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2019/608854/IPOL_IDA(2019)608854_EN.pdf Standardization is strategic to innovative developments in a variety of industrial sectors, because it can guarantee efficiency gains. It can benefit consumers by   [Full story...]

Rome [ENA] Yemen has the shape similar to a rectangle and it is a very poor country, located on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. It shares its entire northern border with Saudi Arabia and its entire eastern border with Oman. From 1962 until 1990 there were two Yemeni states: in the north, the Arab Republic of Yemen, governed in a despotic way by Ali Abdullah Saleh, in the southern part the People's Democratic Republic   [Full story...]