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property law serves the public interest.

How Patent Rights Affect University Science

[Laurent R. Bergé, Thorsten Doherr, and Katrin Hussinger] Abstract: How do intellectual property rights influence academic science? We investigate the consequences of the introduction of software patents in the U.S. on the publications of university researchers in the field of computer science. Difference-in-difference estimations reveal that software scientists at U.S. universities produced fewer publications (both in terms of quantity and

IP Reveries: Class 4 – Ruminating on the “R – Rights” of IPR!

[Swaraj Paul Barooah and Lokesh Vyas] The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in

Inequitable COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Intellectual Property Rights Prolong the Pandemic

[Emrah Altindis] Introduction: ...Ending this global pandemic seems unlikely with the current patent and technology sharing systems because (i) the number of available vaccine doses is limited by the production capacity of the companies owning the patents, recipes, and technology and (ii) the inequitable distribution of the limited supply of vaccines throughout the world. India and South Africa put forward

Copyright Content Moderation in the EU: An Interdisciplinary Mapping Analysis

[João Pedro Quintais, Péter Mezei, István Harkai, João Vieira Magalhães, Christian Katzenbach, Sebastian Felix Schwemer, and Thomas Riis] Abstract: This report is part of the reCreating Europe project and describes the results of the research carried out in the context of Work Package 6 on the mapping of the EU legal framework and intermediaries’ practices on copyright content moderation. The

Big Win: White House OSTP Releases New Guidance on Access to Federally Funded Research

[PIJIP] The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) issued an updated memorandum updating the 2013 White House OSTP Memorandum on Public Access to Publicly Funded Research Results to make “articles resulting from all U.S. federally funded research freely available and publicly accessible by default in agency-designated repositories without any embargo or delay after publication.” It eliminates the

Competition Law and Intellectual Property: A Study Drawing from The Eli Lilly Case on ‘Sham Litigation’ in Brazil

[Pablo Leurquin] Competition authorities may be the best equipped institutions to penalize certain illicit practices that involve intellectual property rights. This article analyzes the decision by the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica – CADE) in the Eli Lilly case, in which the company was convicted for abusive use of the right to petition (sham