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 [...]
Oompa Loompa Secrecy-Do: Government’s Thumb on the Trade Secret Scale
A forthcoming article in the NYU Law Review by Jeanne C. Fromer argues that the software industry is increasingly turning to trade secret protections: With secrecy becoming more robust for [...]
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 [...]
Double-Dipping on Government R&D: Corporate Patents and Government Research
A new article published in Science examines the growing role of public funding in driving innovation: Innovation increasingly relies on scientific knowledge. Research to generate that knowledge has historically been funded [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 19th
News and Commentary Law360 has a profile of lawyers and judges who skipped law school and instead were able to take the bar after a few years of apprenticeship. Aspiring [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 18th
News and Commentary Stephen Matteo Miller has the second and third part of his series on the number of banks and bank concentration up at the Mercatus Center. The second [...]