[Excerpt from a white paper prepared by Elizabeth Hadzima, Alexandra Wood, Lila Bailey, and Jennifer Urban] This briefing paper describes how the flexibility of the fair use doctrine in United States (U.S.) copyright law helps U.S. libraries fulfill their missions…
Ten law professors with expertise in intellectual property and trade secrecy wrote to the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) on April 1 in support of the Commission¹s groundbreaking proposed hydraulic fracturing (fracking) regulations that would require corporations to…
In a stunning victory for poor patients throughout the developing world, the Indian Supreme Court today ruled against a Novartis challenge of a denial of a patent on its cancer medicine Glivec.[1] The Court upheld strict standards in the India…
Authors: Luis Aguiar and Bertin Martens Abstract: The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects…
Authors: John Hudson and Alexandru Minea Abstract: Two important strands of literature investigate the way the effect of intellectual property rights (IPR) on innovation depends on either the initial IPR level or the level of economic development. We expand on…
The Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law Tel-Aviv University, Israel 30 – 31 October 2013 The modern world is changing at a rapid pace, and the law is in constant reactive mode to accommodate…
Today I’m releasing a paper on foreign ownership of firms in IP intensive industries. Here is a summary of the paper: For decades, U.S. domestic and foreign IP policy has been predicated on the assumption that U.S. firms dominated both…
[by Amy Kapczynski] Chan Park, Bhaven Sampat and I recently published in PLoS, perhaps of interest to folks here. We provide data about the ubiquity and significance of so-called “secondary” patents in pharma (e.g. salt patents, polymorph patents, dosage and…
Earlier this month the Nature Publishing Group announced a new policy allowing authors of articles published in all 19 of its journals to publish under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. Authors choosing to make their work available under a…
Open Education has a long history, and recent developments in open licensing and technology have taken the movement to a tipping point. “Open” has become the buzz word in many educational communities, and Open Textbooks especially has generated wide interest.…
It is a tremendous victory for people living with HIV in Indonesia that it has issued new compulsory licenses on seven anti-retroviral medicines, allowing the government to access generic versions of those medicines – domestically or by importation – at…
The following is an excerpt from the full paper by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, published as a working paper for the St. Louis Federal Reserve. The full paper is available here. The case against patents can be summarized…