Prof. Raquel Xalabarder Chair of Intellectual Property Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Click here for the full paper (PDF) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In February 2014, the Spanish Government proposed a bill to amend the Spanish Intellectual Property Law (TRLPI).[1] Among other amendments,…
Author: Dan L. Burk Abstract: Copyright law is largely a response to new media: from the printing press through radio, photocopiers, and digital computers, changes in copyright reflect the increased public availability of information reproduction technologies. But while the exclusive…
Authors: Vibhanshu Abhishek, Rahul Telang, and Yi Zhang Abstract: Advances in technology have enabled producers of entertainment goods to reach customers in innovative ways. However, new technologies also make it easier for users to infringe on the content. Producers argue…
Excerpt from the 2014 Trade and Development Report: Global Governance and Policy Space for Development, published yesterday by the UN Conference on Trade and Development. From pages 80 to 86: Successful development experiences have generally been associated with structural transformation.…
Authors: Niva Elkin-Koren and Orit Fischman Afori Abstract: Exceptions and limitations to the rights of copyright owners aim to promote copyright goals in a rapidly changing world. Policymakers are often faced with the choice of either adopting an open-norm, such…
Author: Deepa Varadarajan Publication: Fordham Law Review, Vol. 83 (2014 Forthcoming) Abstract: Trade secret law arose to help companies protect confidential information (e.g., the Coca-Cola formula) from competitors seeking to copy their innovative efforts. But companies increasingly use trade secret…
Authors: Rahul Telang and Joel Waldfogel Abstract: While copyright research in the decade following Napster focused mostly on whether file sharing undermines demand, research has more recently asked how piracy and other aspects of digitization affect the supply of new…
Eli Dourado, Ian Robinson, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. August 2014. Abstract: In the past two years, a spate of misleading reports on intellectual property has sought to convince policymakers and the public that implausibly high proportions of US output…
Author: Dan Burk Abstract: Patent law has long harbored the concept of “inventing around,” under which competitors to a patent holder may be expected, and even encouraged, to design their technologies so as to skirt the boundaries defined by patent…
Author: Catherine Tucker Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the statistical relation between levels of patent litigation and venture capital (“VC”) investment in the U.S. We find that VC investment, a major funding source for entrepreneurial activity, initially increases with the…
Key data on prices, regulatory status, tariffs and the intellectual property situation World Health Organization, Link Peter Beyer and Joseph Perriëns This paper provides information on the prices paid by 20 middle-income countries for adult and paediatric formulations of antiretroviral…
Author: Brian Love, Santa Clara University School of Law Abstract: Studies of the costs and benefits of university patent ownership have, to date, focused on life sciences technology. Increasingly, however, many of the most lucrative university-owned patents relate to computing…