Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One Without the Other?* This Paper is concerned with the interaction between trade policies and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). In particular, it investigates, within the framework of a general equilibrium model with endogenous growth, the welfare implications of an international agreement on one or bo...

This paper describes JCCap, a protection facility for cooperating applications in the context of Java Card. It enables the control of access rights between mutually suspicious applications, either between one terminal application and one Java Card applet or between two applets hosted inside the same Java Card. Using JCCap, access to objects is controlled by means of software capabilities that c...

What form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy contributes to economic growth? Should a company with a large technology lead receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited advantage? Should followers be able to license the products of technology leaders? We develop a general equilibrium framework to investigate these questions. The economy consists of many industries a...

What form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy contributes to economic growth? Should technological followers be able to license the products of technological leaders? Should a company with a large technological lead receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited lead? We develop a general equilibrium framework to investigate these questions. The economy consists of ma...

To what extent and in what form should the intellectual property rights (IPR) of innovators be protected? Should a company with a large technology lead over its rivals receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited advantage? The analysis of these questions necessitates a dynamic framework for the study of the interactions between IPR and competition, in particular to understa...