This Week in Intellectual Property, June 22nd
News and Commentary In Protocol, Janko Roettgers discusses the patent dispute between Sonos and Google. Last year, Sonos sued Google for patent infringement and Google in turn sued Sonos for [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 16th
News and Commentary An article in Billboard discusses the approval of sections of the American Law Institute's Restatement on Copyright Law. While the text of the Restatement has yet to be [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 10th
News and Commentary In The Gazette, Colorado woman and former prisoner at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility discusses her successful transition from prison life to contributing member of society. She discusses [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, June 8th
News and Commentary I am interviewed in Bloomberg Law discussing the newest text of the TRIPS waiver on COVID-related intellectual property. In my view, the narrowing of the scope of [...]
An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright Fair Use Opinions Updated, 1978-2019
This article presents a brief update through 2019 of the author’s previous quantitative study of all reported federal court opinions that applied the Copyright Act’s four-factor test for copyright fair [...]
(When) Does Patent Protection Spur Cumulative Research Within Firms?
We estimate the effect of patent protection on follow-on investments in corporate scientific research. We exploit a new method for identifying an exogenous reduction in the protection a granted patent [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, June 4th
News and Commentary Writing for Greater Greater Washington, Wyatt Gordon discusses a new "anti-NIMBY" law soon to go into effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The law makes it far [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 3rd
News and Commentary Writing in opposition of universal licensing recognition is Marta Zaniewski. She makes the basic point that universal licensing recognition may lead to problems (citing the Texas power [...]
Regulating Glamour: A Quantitative Analysis of the Health and Safety Training of Appearance Professionals
Personal appearance professionals in the United States — such as barbers, cosmetologists, and manicurists — must typically be licensed. These licensing requirements vary from state to state, and they are [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 2nd
News and Commentary A blog post from Lauren Anderson and Francisco Covas discuss the implications of suggestions made by several regulators and academics to require regulation of bank capital requirements [...]