The goal of this thesis is to analyze international license contract institute, the function and the position it occupies in the sphere of international business with incorporeal goods and legal regime which it, on the level of the Czech rule of law and European Union law, is subject to. The thesis consists of four parts. The first part focuses on the institute of contractual license in general. It outlines its conception and basic definitional framework. It reflects the function and the position which the institute of license contract occupies in the Czech rule of law as well as its shift within the framework of Czech private law recodification. It presents diverse typology of contractual license and in the process it thoroughly focuses on its modifications, respectively on marginal agreement models such as franchise agreement and know how agreement. The second part of the thesis continues with text dedicated to the institute of license contract with international element. It presents its general classification and it also analyzes sources of its modification. The third part of the thesis treats legal regime which the international license contract is subject to, and the focal point of the text lies in the union modification included in the Rome Convention and in Regulation Rome I. The problem is discussed...

La valorisation des résultats est considérée comme un objectif prioritaire du service public de la recherche depuis maintenant trente ans. Ce phénomène s’est encore accentué avec l’émergence de l’économie de la connaissance. Les productions immatérielles de la recherche scientifique sont désormais clairement perçues comme des richesses qu’il convient d’exploiter sur un marché pour générer de la croissance.Pour atteindre cet objectif, les acteurs de la recherche publique sont encouragés par les pouvoirs publics à mobiliser les mécanismes de la propriété intellectuelle, en rupture avec le modèle de science ouverte. Le recours à la propriété intellectuelle pour les besoins de la valorisation fait ainsi naître une tension entre, d’une part, une logique économique et entrepreneuriale et, d’autre part, les normes d’ouverture et de partage qui prévalaient jusqu’alors au sein la recherche scientifique publique.La présente étude se propose d’examiner les rapports complexes qu’entretient la propriété intellectuelle en tant qu’institution juridique avec la mission de valorisation des résultats de la recherche publique. Les points de contact sont en effet nombreux, qu’il s’agisse de délimiter ce qui, au sein des résultats, peut être approprié et selon quelles modalités, d’identifier qui, parmi les acteurs de la recherche, doit être considéré comme propriétaire, ou encore de favoriser le transfert des résultats vers le secteur industriel et commercial. Il apparaîtra que la logique et les mécanismes de la propriété intellectuelle ne sont pas incompatibles avec les normes de la recherche publique. Au contraire, la propriété intellectuelle doit être considérée comme un instrument privilégié dans la mesure où elle aménage un équilibre subtil entre réservation et diffusion des connaissances qui répond parfaitement aux objectifs de la valorisation / For the last thirty years, valorisation of research results has been deemed a main objective for public research organisations. This trend has been emphasised by the emergence of a knowledge-based economy. Immaterial productions of scientific research are now plainly seen as assets that need to be used on the market to encourage growth.In order to achieve this goal, public research stakeholders are pressed by authorities to summon intellectual property rights, in contradiction with the open science model. The use of intellectual property rights for the needs of valorisation gives rise to a tension between a business-oriented perspective and the norms of sharing and openness that prevail among the scientific community.The aim of this thesis is to study the intricate interactions existing between intellectual property and valorisation of public research results. There are numerous points of contact, such as defining what is subject matter for intellectual property among scientific research results and who is entitled to the intellectual property rights, or fostering the technology transfer toward industry. It will be shown the mechanisms underlying intellectual property do not collide with the norms of public research. Quite the opposite, intellectual property is to be favoured since it can provide public research organisations with a subtle balance between reservation and dissemination of knowledge, hence fulfilling the goals of valorisation

Orientador: Juliano Maurício de Carvalho / Resumo: O presente estudo se propõe a identificar, sistematizar e analisar a agenda política construída no plano regional sul-americano acerca da produção, distribuição e circulação de bens simbólicos e culturais, materializados na forma de conteúdos digitais, no âmbito da União das Nações Sul-americanas (Unasul). O recorte temporal de análise compreende o período entre 2008 e 2017, que representa a primeira década de atuação do organismo de cooperação, posteriormente à consolidação das Declarações da Cúpula Mundial sobre a Sociedade da Informação (CMSI), que definiriam os elementos norteadores das estratégias de desenvolvimento da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) para a consolidação do novo paradigma sociotécnico da Sociedade da Informação. A pesquisa possui abordagem qualitativa, de caráter explicativo, e recorre à Análise Documental como procedimento para desconstrução dos elementos essenciais dos registros documentais da Unasul; reconstrói e debate os elementos essenciais à conformação de políticas de comunicação para produção de conteúdos digitais a partir do referencial teórico-epistemológico da Economia Política da Comunicação e do Conhecimento – influenciado pela tradição de pesquisa do Ciespal. Como resultados, a pesquisa identifica a centralidade das indústrias culturais e da propriedade intelectual na agenda política da Unasul, apesar de verificar certa dificuldade na implementação de ações concretas para o setor. / Resumen: El objetivo de este estudio es identificar, sistematizar y analizar la agenda política construida a nivel regional de América del Sur con respecto a la producción, distribución y circulación de bienes simbólicos y culturales, materializados en forma de contenido digital, en el marco de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas. (Unasur). El plazo de análisis abarca el período entre 2008 y 2017, que representa la primera década de funcionamiento del organismo de cooperación, después de la consolidación de las Declaraciones de la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Información (CMSI), que definiría los elementos orientadores de las estrategias de cooperación. Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) para consolidar el nuevo paradigma sociotécnico de la sociedad de la información. La investigación tiene un enfoque cualitativo, de carácter explicativo, y utiliza el análisis de documentos como un procedimiento para deconstruir los elementos esenciales de los registros documentales de Unasur; Reconstruye y discute los elementos esenciales para la configuración de las políticas de comunicación para la producción de contenido digital desde el marco teóricoepistemológico de la economía política de la comunicación y el conocimiento, influenciado por la tradición de investigación de Ciespal. Como resultado, la investigación identifica la centralidad de las industrias culturales y la propiedad intelectual en la agenda política de Unasur, a pesar de encontrar algunas dificultades para implemen... (Resumen completo clicar acceso eletrônico abajo) / Abstract: The present research proposes to identify, systematize and analyze the political agenda built on the South American regional plan on the production, materialized in the form of digital content, within the Union of South American Nations (USAN). The analysis understand the period between 2008 and 2017, that represents the first decade of cooperation operation, after the consolidation of the Declaration of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), that would define the guiding elements of the development strategies of the United Nations (UN) for the consolidation of the new socio-technical paradigm of the information society. The research has a qualitative approach with an explanatory character and uses the documentary analysis to deconstruction the essential elements of USAN's documentary records; reconstructs and debates the essential elements to the conformation of communication policies for the production of digital contents from the theoreticalepistemological referential of the Political Economy of Communication and Knowledge – influenced by Ciespal's research tradition. As results, the research identifies the centrality of cultural industries and intellectual property on the political agenda of USAN, although verify some difficulty in the implementation of concrete actions for the sector. / Doutor

Abstract Developing countries are net importers of intellectual property products and open source software (OSS) production is one way in which local socio-economic development can take place. The public goods characteristics of OSS are contested and this study investigates whether in a developing country context OSS is a pure public good that can be locally appropriated and not exclude any users or producers from doing so. This case study of an OSS public good finds that it does not have all the characteristics of a pure good, that there is a role for a sponsor, and in particular the importance of copyright protection of derivatives in order to ensure that the source code does not fall out of fashion and use. Having explored that, however, there is further evidence that OSS collaborative learning is both publically and personally beneficial for developing country computer programmers. Furthermore, the state benefits from the improved benefits of health information systems made possible through the appropriation of this model of learning.

Les noms de domaine sont des objets polymorphes, à la fois techniques et sémantiques. La question de leur régulation, avec l’essor du Domain Name System, est rapidement devenue un défi de taille pour le législateur. Face à une certaine défaillance du droit étatique s’est développé un véritable corpus supplétif de source privée. C’est notamment le cas des procédures extrajudiciaires de résolution des conflits mises en places par l’ICANN. Ces différents mécanismes de nature transnationale forment un ensemble cohérent, en constante évolution, que l’on peut qualifier de véritable lex domainia. Ce concept implique cependant une vision nécessairement pluraliste du droit - où cohabitent systèmes publics, privés et hybrides -, qui invite le juriste à repenser la théorie des sources. Cette thèse contribue à la compréhension de la nature et de l’articulation de ces différentes sphères normatives. Celles-ci ne doivent pas être considérées comme des espaces clos et hermétiques ; il existe entre eux des perméabilités qui dessinent un dispositif de régulation transnational aux sources plurielles. Il s’agit, selon l’auteur, d’une parfaite illustration de la théorie du réseau. / Domain names are polymorphic objects, whose nature is both technical and semantic. The question of their regulation has quickly become, with the rapid growth of the Domain Name System, a major challenge for the lawmaker. A certain default of state law favored the development of what one might call a private supplementary corpus. This is notably the case for extrajudicial domain name dispute resolution mechanisms promoted by the ICANN. These various transnational mechanisms form a coherent whole, in constant evolution, which can be described as a real lex domainia. This concept, however, necessarily implies a pluralistic conception of law - where public, private and hybrid systems cohabit -, which invites legal theorists to rethink the sources theory. This thesis contributes to the understanding of the nature and the articulation of these various normative spheres. These should not be regarded as closed and hermetic spaces ; permeabilities exist between them, that draw a transnational regulation pattern with plural sources. This is, according to the author, a perfect illustration of the mesh theory.

Dans la mesure où la marque facilite le choix des consommateurs dans le spectre des variétés et qualités des produits, elle s'avère indispensable pour l'allocation efficace des ressources dans le processus productif, devenant ainsi un actif important des entreprises, au point qu'il existe désormais un « marché » sur lequel se rencontrent une offre et une demande de marques. En ce sens, le travail de recherche s'articule sur l'analyse économique de l'offre par les entreprises et les contrefacteurs et la demande de marques par les consommateurs. D'abord, il s'agit de démontrer que l'offre de marque est assimilable à un moyen de différenciation de l'entreprise sur un marché concurrentiel. La marque apparaît comme un vecteur important de l'activité entrepreneuriale, source de croissance. Ensuite, une autre partie de la recherche est consacrée à l'analyse de la marque du côté de la demande, et notamment à un aspect particulier de la demande de marque qui réside dans la demande de contrefaçon de marques. Nous proposons un modèle théorique d'achat de contrefaçons de marque avec un mécanisme de théorie des jeux sur la formation d'une norme sociale. Enfin, la présente étude tente de démontrer que les comportements de consommation de contrefaçon restent largement influencés par le cadre légal qui régit la contrefaçon de marque, et que l'efficacité des politiques de lutte contre ce phénomène est affectée par un élargissement du marché de la contrefaçon, lequel résulte de l'expansion croissante des nouvelles technologies et du développement de la consommation en réseau. / To the extent that brandname facilitates consumer choice in the spectrum of varieties and qualities of products, it is a determining factor of the efficient allocation of resources in the production process, thus becoming an important corporate asset, up to the point that there is now a "market" of brands where meet supply and demand for brands. Thus, this research is based on an economic analysis of the supply of brands by firms and counterfeiters and the demand for brands by consumers. First, it is to show that supplying a brand is comparable to a means of differentiating the firm in a competitive market, and the mark appears as an important driver of entrepreneurial activity and a source growth. Then, another part of the research is devoted to the analysis of the mark on the demand side of the market, including a particular aspect of the demand for trademark which is the demand for trademark infringement. We build a theoretical model of purchasing counterfeited brands with a mechanism of game theory on the formation of a social norm. Finally, we attempt to show that counterfeit consumption behavior remains largely influenced by the legal framework governing trademark infringement, and that the effectiveness of policies to fight against this phenomenon is affected by an expansion of the market counterfeiting, which results from the increasing expansion of new technologies and the growth of consumption in the network.

The role of open innovation is becoming increasingly important for organizational competitiveness, while digital technologies provide new opportunities for organizational innovativeness. Regardless of domain and industry, digital technologies have reshaped structure, business logic and organizational dynamics. In that spirit, the forestry industry moves from the traditional model to the open paradigm, embracing the significance of purposive external exploration and internal exploitation of knowledge and technologies. Although the importance of digital technologies has been highlighted by academia, their enabling role in the open innovation process is insufficiently explored. Moreover, little research showcases the systematic way to organize for open innovation in the digital world. This process towards openness creates new opportunities as well as challenges. In order to investigate these emerging challenges and opportunities for open innovation in a digital world, we conducted a qualitative exploratory case study in the Cluster of Forest Technology in northern Sweden. Our results illustrate that challenges such as trust, power asymmetries, knowledge flow and coopetitive activities need to be managed. This study contributes to the existing literature by providing a way to address these challenges, seize more opportunities and bridge the gap between open innovation and digital technologies.

La thèse traite de la protection de la propriété privée, d’une part dans le droit et la pratique de la Convention européenne des droits de l’Homme, et d’autre part dans le droit constitutionnel et la pratique des systèmes tchèque et français. Elle fournit une enquête comparative sur la portée des clauses respectives de protection de la propriété et de leur interprétation juridique dans le but de faire ressortir les éléments aussi bien convergents que divergents des approches normatives et jurisprudentielles de la protection de la propriété en tant que droit de l’Homme. L’objectif principal de cette enquête a été d’examiner et de comparer le traitement de la propriété dans la la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme et dans les Constitutions de la France et de la République tchèque. Le sujet de la recherche est traité sous la forme d’une recherche dans plusieurs domaines spécifiques: les fondements théoriques et philosophiques, le sens et la portée des garanties assorties à la propriété et leur interprétation juridique, les limites et les privations de propriété, et les approches constitutionnelles quant à leur mise en oeuvre dans le droit et la pratique de la Convention. / The thesis deals with the protection of private property in the law and practice of the European Convention on Human Rights and in the Czech and French constitutional law and practice. It provides a comparative inquiry into the scope of the respective property protection clauses and their judicial interpretation with a view to extracting convergent and divergent elements of the normative and jurisprudential approaches to the protection of private property as a human right. The main focus of the inquiry is to examine and compare the treatment of property in the European Convention on Human Rights and in constitutional law of France and the Czech Republic. The topic is analysed by virtue of research into several specific areas: the philosophical and theoretical foundations; the meaning and scope of the property guarantees and their judicial interpretation, limitations and deprivations of property; and the constitutional approaches to the implementation of the law and practice of the Convention.

Uma das características mais marcantes da propriedade intelectual é a tensão existente entre interesses público e privado. Na seara das patentes, essa tensão se torna ainda mais evidente quando o objeto da propriedade privada é essencial à consecução de objetivos sociais, como é o claro caso dos medicamentos. Concebida para fomentar a inovação, oferecendo um crescente número de soluções aos problemas enfrentados pela sociedade, a patente deve servir de incentivo à atividade inventiva. Isso ocorre por meio do período de exclusividade concedido ao inventor, durante o qual somente ele está autorizado a explorar comercialmente o produto de seus esforços. Quando se trata de bens essenciais à manutenção da vida dos indivíduos, entretanto, a análise se torna mais complexa. Preços monopolísticos podem impedir o acesso a determinadas drogas e inviabilizar políticas de saúde pública, por exemplo. É o custo social de um sistema de proteção fundado no monopólio de exploração. A ausência de incentivos, entretanto, leva à ausência de investimentos em produtos inovadores (veja-se o claro exemplo das doenças negligenciadas), o que, por sua vez, também gera um custo social. Existe equilíbrio possível a essa equação? Ao regular como o conhecimento é compartilhado, e ao estabelecer limites ao que se pode (e não se pode) fazer com os produtos desse conhecimento, a propriedade intelectual assume papel central no debate que busca compreender a relação entre direito e desenvolvimento. É buscando contribuir para essa reflexão que a presente tese foi concebida. Pretende-se demonstrar que quando se olha para o desenvolvimento de forma integrada, o progresso econômico por si só deixa de ser suficiente para atender às necessidades de crescimento das nações. Logo, as justificativas econômicas ao sistema de proteção patentário também deixam de ser suficientes para, por si só, atenderem aos anseios de desenvolvimento dos mais variados países. O trabalho encontra-se estruturado em quatro capítulos principais. O primeiro apresenta o ambiente internacional no qual se dá, majoritariamente, a produção normativa em matéria de propriedade intelectual; bem como a trajetória que moldou o atual quadro brasileiro em matéria de patentes e acesso a medicamentos. O segundo capítulo analisa as principais teorias que justificam o sistema de patentes, bem como aquelas que evidenciam suas fragilidades, além de discutir alternativas possíveis de fomento à inovação. O terceiro capítulo, por sua vez, estabelece o conceito de desenvolvimento que pauta a análise central proposta pela tese e o quarto e último capítulo traça um desenho da realidade da indústria farmacêutica no Brasil, no qual fica evidenciado que a produção de novos conhecimentos, passíveis de gerar inovação na área da saúde, é uma das grandes fragilidades nacionais. Sob a ótica de uma concepção integrada de desenvolvimento, conclui-se que a atual estrutura normativa patentária, por não oferecer alternativas ao monopólio como fomento à inovação, é mais prejudicial do que benéfica ao desenvolvimento do país, sendo necessário conceber modelos alternativos de proteção que possam coexistir com o modelo vigente. / One of the most noteworthy features of intellectual property rights is the existing tension between public and private interests. Particularly in the field of patents, such tension becomes even more evident when the object of private property is key to the achievement of social goals, as is the clear case of medicines. Conceived to foster innovation and offer society an ever-increasing number of solutions to everyday problems, patents must function as real incentives to creative activity. This is feasible because for a limited period of time, the inventor is the sole detainer of the commercial rights to explore his invention. When goods are, as in the case of drugs, essential to people\'s lives, the analysis becomes much more complex. Monopolistic prices may hinder access to certain drugs and, thus, make public health policies more difficult. Based on monopoly rights, this protection system has social costs. Lack of economic incentives, on the other hand, may lead to shortage of investments in innovative products (see the case of neglected diseases, for instance), which also generates social cost. Is it possible to strike balance to this equation? By regulating how knowledge is shared, and by establishing limits to what can and cannot be done to knowledge products, intellectual property rights take on a key role in the debate that seeks to understand the relationship between law and development. This dissertation aims at contributing to such discussion, by primarily demonstrating that when development is conceived in a holistic manner, economic progress in itself no longer suffices nations. Thus, the economic rationale used for the patent system also ceases to fulfill development goals in a significantly increasing number of countries. The dissertation is divided into four main parts. Chapter one portrays the international environment in which most intellectual property issues are regulated, as well as the historical and political routes that led to the current Brazilian legal framework of patents and access to medicines. Chapter two analyses the main legal and economic theories that justify the existence of the patent system, as well as those that evidence its shortcomings. It further presents and discusses existing alternative options that may encourage innovation in this area. Chapter three establishes the concept of development that is central to the dissertation\'s main analysis, while chapter four tells the story of pharmaceutical production in Brazil. The central line traced through the dissertation makes it then possible to demonstrate how national knowledge production that may lead to pharmaceutical innovations is one of the country\'s main limitations. The use of a holistic view of development leads to the conclusion that the current patent framework is, in fact, inadequate and produces more damage than benefits to the development of Brazil, to the extent that it does not offer alternative solutions to monopoly power. Different incentive models that can coexist with the current system are, in this sense, desiderata.

L'époque contemporaine est marquée par l'expansion des modes alternatifs de règlement des différends dans tous les domaines de la vie juridique. Ce mouvement s'accompagne d'une large ouverture de l'arbitrabilité et de la transigeabilité. Mais une fois que l'on a ouvert les champs de l'arbitrage et de la transaction, encore faut-il savoir quels sont les pouvoirs des acteurs des modes alternatifs et quel peut être le contenu de la solution (sentence arbitrale ou transaction) issue du processus alternatif. Pour avancer dans cette réflexion, il importe de dépasser les seules notions d'arbitrabilité et de transigeabilité. A cette fin, nous avons recours au concept d'alternativité (PARTIE PRELIMINAIRE). Ce dernier présente l'intérêt d'embrasser l'ensemble des questions de fonds nécessaires à l'appréhension des modes alternatifs. Il est possible de le représenter sous la forme d'un triple test : - l'arbitrabilité ou la transigeabilité subjective ; - l'arbitrabilité ou la transigeabilité objective ; - les pouvoirs des acteurs des modes alternatifs et le contenu de la solution. La recherche du critère de l'alternativité révèle que l'ordre public devait être retenu comme seul critère (PREMIERE PARTIE). Une large faveur aux modes alternatifs nécessite la « désactivation » du critère de l'ordre public dans l'appréhension de l'arbitrabilité et de la transigeabilité, et ce afin de favoriser le bon déroulement des processus alternatifs. Ce faisant, l'action du critère de l'ordre public est déplacée dans le temps, une fois que le processus alternatif a opéré et fourni une solution aux parties. Se pose alors la question de l'éventuel contrôle du juge et plus précisément celui de l'intensité de ce contrôle sur la transaction ou la sentence arbitrale. Entre les écoles positiviste et libérale, l'auteur adopte une position modérée consistant dans l'acceptation dans contrôle approfondi qui ne soit pas pour autant incompatible avec le développement d'un ordre juridique alternatif. L'intérêt du recours à la propriété intellectuelle est double. En premier lieu, la propriété intellectuelle est traversée par toutes les branches de l'ordre public et, de ce fait, elle constitue un objet d'étude privilégié pour l'analyse du concept d'alternativité. En second lieu, l'étude du concept d'alternativité offre l'occasion de rechercher l'unité des propriétés intellectuelles face aux différentes branches de l'ordre public et, par conséquent, la même unité dans le prisme de l'alternativité / L'auteur n'a pas fourni de résumé anglais.