This Week in Intellectual Property, July 8th
Rent Check Trade secrets are an alternative to patenting, but they come at the cost of the various protections that the government gives to patent holders. Or perhaps not. Jeanne [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, July 3rd
News and Commentary The "Arizona model" of universal licensing reciprocity is catching on. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law a bill that allows professionals licensed in another state to [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, July 2nd
News and Commentary In the second part of their posts on Liberty Street Economics' new model for contagion in the financial sector, Fernando Duarte, Collin Jones, and Francisco Ruela evaluate [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 1st
News and Commentary Kerry Maeve Sheehan of the Author's Alliance has a post detailing the problems with the CASE Act, which would create a small-claims court for copyright claims. While [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, June 27th
News and Commentary Kevin Erdman's third post on the dynamics of landlords in the housing market is on why owner/occupancy is so common in the U.S. He argues that due [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 26th
News and Commentary Due to a failure to pass a teaching licensing exam on the part of many teachers, Jackson Public School District in Mississippi, which faces a teacher shortage, [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 25th
News and Commentary Liberty Street Economics has a new model for contagion risk in the financial sector. They are able to model by inputting different losses from sectors outside the [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 24th
News and Commentary An article published in Discover magazine discusses the research of Janet Freilich and the problem of "prophetic patents." These patents are for inventions that don't exist yet, some [...]
Prophetic Patents
In most contexts, making up data is forbidden - considered fraudulent, even immoral. Not so in patents. Patents often contain experimental data, and it is perfectly acceptable for these experiments [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, June 20th
News and Commentary The Strand Bookstore, a 92-year old New York institution, has been designated as a landmark by NYC. This means the third-generation owner, Nancy Bass Widen, will need [...]