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Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)

Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...

2023

Uniformly perfect finitely generated simple left orderable groups

Yash Lodha

We show that the finitely generated simple left orderable groups G(rho) constructed by the first two authors in Hyde and Lodha [Finitely generated infinite simple groups of homeomorphisms of the real line. Invent. Math. (2019), doi:10.1007/s00222-01900880- ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2021

La Technologie et les brevets d'invention aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles

Jérôme Baudry

(FR) Dans les régimes de brevets d’invention qui se mettent en place au XVIIIe siècle, d’abord en Angleterre puis aux États-Unis et en France, la description (par le texte, l’image, le modèle, l’échantillon) occupe un rôle central. Elle permet d’opérationn ...

2020

A Politics of Intellectual Property: The French Revolution and the Creation of a Patent System

Jérôme Baudry

Our understanding of the rise of intellectual property has been highly influenced by the tools and concepts of economic history and the lens of the Industrial Revolution. Looking at the case of France, this article examines the cultural and ideological ori ...

2020

A Politics of Intellectual Property Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France

Jérôme Baudry

Economic interpretations, in particular the lens of the Industrial Revolution, have strongly influenced our understanding of the rise of intellectual property. This article examines the political origins of the 1791 patent law in France, which is usually s ...

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS2020

Performance Contracts for Software Network Functions

George Candea, Solal Vincenzo Pirelli, Arseniy Zaostrovnykh, Rishabh Ramesh Iyer, Luis David Figueiredo Mascarenhas Moreira Pedrosa

Software network functions (NFs), or middleboxes, promise flexibility and easy deployment of network services but face the serious challenge of unexpected performance behaviour. We propose the notion of a performance contract, a construct formulated in ter ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Local Energy Storage and Stochastic Modeling for Ultrafast Charging Stations

Hubert Girault, Heron Vrubel, Yorick Ligen

Multi-stall fast charging stations are often thought to require megawatt-range grid connections. The power consumption profile of such stations results in high cost penalties due to monthly power peaks and expensive linkage fees. A local energy storage sys ...

2019

How will we plan and build in 25 years and how will this process be regulated?

Julien Gamerro

Constraints and regulations related to new buildings are constantly evolving and all these changes, in our ways of thinking and producing, will have an impact on standards. For the policy field, contractual relationships, risk-allocation models and procedu ...

2018

Essays in Bank Financing

Yalda Sigrist

This thesis examines the optimal mode of financing for banks and financial institutions. The first chapter, which is a joint work with Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet, investigates how Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) should be financed. The ...

EPFL2017

SLA: to Sign or Not to Sign

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

We present our experience of a three-week fieldwork in the form of a contextual inquiry with a service manager at the EPFL IT department. During these three weeks, we encounter a refusal of a user committee to sign a service-level agreement (SLA). We descr ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2016

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