This Week In Intellectual Property, March 2nd
News and Commentary The band Yeasayer has filed a copyright infringement complaint against The Weekend and Kendrick Lamar over "pray for me," a track from the Black Panther movie. In another [...]
The Effects of Prize Structures on Innovative Performance
Successful innovation is essential for the survival and growth of organizations but how best to incentivize innovation is poorly understood. We compare how two common incentive schemes affect innovative performance [...]
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization
We explore how firms grow by adding products. In contrast to most earlier work on the topic, our conceptual and empirical framework allows for separate treatment of product innovation (vertical [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, February 25th
News and Commentary The News Media Alliance has joined the coalition of pro-rightsholder organizations in an amicus brief for Oracle in Google v. Oracle. The Copyright Royalty Judges will publish a [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, February 18th
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 [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, February 10th
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 [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, February 3rd
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 [...]
Copyright and the Progress of Science: Why Text and Data Mining Is Lawful
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 [...]
Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation: Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents
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 [...]
This Week In Intellectual Property, January 27th
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 [...]