infonet-economy

Dans deux affaires tranchées en 2012 par le Tribunal fédéral, les effets de trusts entraient en conflit direct avec l'application de règles suisses (régime matrimonial, droit des successions). Les tribunaux ont résolu ces conflits en prononçant la nullité des trusts en question au lieu de trancher la question délicate mais pas nouvelle en droit international privé d'un...

The growing importance of intellectual property assets in today’s economy and transnational business transactions, the complexities and disadvantages of intellectual property litigation before state courts as well as the attractiveness of ADR solutions as such (particularly in terms of confidentiality of expertise) explain why arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution...

In its recent decision ATF 140 III 134, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court held that certain claims raised by patent licensors against their exlicensee after the termination of their patent license agreement were within the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal notwithstanding a contractual provision which seemed to limit the submission to arbitration of only pretermination disputes....

L’article aborde la loi relative à la recherche sur l’être humain sous l’angle de la protection de la personnalité des participants. Après un rappel historique, le système de la loi est présenté. L’auteur discute la méthode du législateur quant à la délimitation du champ d’application de la loi, aux principes de protection des participants et à la gradation des exigences selon le...

When scientists are looking for information in document collections, they generally have a precise objective in mind. They try to answer specific needs such as finding the definition of a concept, checking whether an idea has already been tested, or comparing the scientific conclusions of several documents. To build better information system model it is important to understand the...

The main challenge for steering IS evolution is to cope with the uncertainty inherent to any IS change, while taking into consideration its complexity due to the entanglement of its multiple dimensions: regulation, information, activity and technology. We observe that i) steering IS evolution requires understanding its IS domain, ii) its impacts are difficult to predict and iii) the...