This Week in Intellectual Property, May 18th
Rent Check Arguments against increased piracy during the time of coronavirus and the National Emergency Library lean on the claim that the U.S. has never reduced copyright protection during times [...]
The Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership: The Case of Paragraph IV Generic Entry
Brand-name pharmaceutical companies often file lawsuits against generic drug manufacturers that challenge the monopoly status of patent-protected drugs. Institutional horizontal shareholdings, measured by the generic shareholders' ownership in the brand-name [...]
Internalizing Externalities: Designing Effective Data Policies
Many economics journals have recently invested in efforts to archive and curate research data and promote reproducible research. The economics profession has focused relatively less attention on what types of [...]
Innovation α: What Do IP-Intensive Stock Price Indexes Tell Us about Innovation?
Patents and other intellectual property (IP) have grown in relative importance in investments and market capitalizations of public firms (e.g., Corrado and Hulten 2010). This paper illustrates the construction of [...]
Emergency Changes to Intellectual Property Law
One of the many arguments made against the National Emergency Library’s decision to make 1.4 million books available for free without a waitlist is that there are no “emergency provisions” [...]
Government Can Pick Winners, Like the Private Sector Can Pick Losers
As part of an inaugural series of blog posts for American Compass, Rob Atkinson makes the case against the "market fundamentalist" view of capture in government support of industry in [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, May 11th
Rent Check Support for guarantees of affordability and access on a coronavirus vaccine or treatment is gaining steam, and concerns that these measures will "steal" the vaccine are misplaced and [...]
Expected Profits and The Scientific Novelty of Innovation
Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for firms to develop new products in the future. While existing research demonstrates [...]
Truly Standard-Essential Patents? A Semantics-Based Analysis
Standard-essential patents (SEPs) have become a key element of technical coordination in standard-setting organizations. Yet, in many cases, it remains unclear whether a declared SEP is truly standard-essential. To date, [...]
We’re All Homeschoolers Now
With schools closed through the rest of the academic year and reopening in September up in the air for most districts across the U.S., the home has become the classroom. [...]