News and Commentary Here's an interesting question: can a retweet be copyright infringement? After sports psychologist employed by the Chicago Cubs Joshua Lifrak posted a quote from Keith F. Bell's [...]
News and Commentary A commentary from Nature analyses several proposals to reduce drug prices, including some modest reviews by the FDA of patents and exclusivity, finding that drug prices are unlikely [...]
News and Commentary Membership in the License on Transfer (LOT) network continues to grow as IBM joins. Why? According to IBM, it's about ensuring interoperability and avoiding the threat of [...]
This Article argues that U.S. copyright law provides a competitive advantage in the global race for innovation policy because it permits researchers to conduct computational analysis — text and data [...]
We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how procurement policy affects the cost, quality, and quantity of medical innovation. Analyzing whether inventions emphasize cost and/or quality requires generating new [...]
News and Commentary The Auto Care Association has filed an amicus brief in favor of Google in Google v Oracle. Their argument is that a ruling in Oracle's favor would reaffirm the [...]
News and Commentary Jonathan Band gave an interview with The Conversation about U.S. influence in trade talks with South Africa related to copyright policy. The main sticking point is over American-style [...]
The negotiations of the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (IGWG) (2006-2008), undertaken by the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO), were the result [...]
News and Commentary Randy Shaw of BeyondChron writes about Dennis Richards, the San Francisco Planning Commissioner, who engaged in real estate speculation, aggressive eviction tactics for his tenants, and other underhanded [...]
News and Commentary In Vermont, the Office of Professional Regulation will ask the state's lawmakers to consider joining the nurse licensure compact. New Research A new study from Health [...]