Rent Check Happy Constitution Day! Last year I wrote a piece discussing the relationship between the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and intellectual property rights. In summary, while intellectual property [...]
News and Commentary Good news from the Tar Heel State: Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has declined a motion to dismiss a claim under the [...]
News and Commentary Writing for The Washington Post, Professor Robin Feldman discusses how the oft-cited justification for the patent system as a way for drug companies to help compensate for [...]
Branded drug prices command considerable attention in the United States yet defining a drug’s price is not straightforward because they vary substantially across settings. We link branded drug prices across [...]
In this paper we analyse whether firms that are concerned with corporate social responsibility (CSR) are willing to disclose their R&D knowledge for free. Assuming strategic R&D with endogenous spillovers [...]
Rent Check I took a deeper dive into the Biden executive order on competition looking at the intellectual property-specific provisions of the EO. There's a lot to like, and the [...]
Earlier this month, the Biden administration unveiled the executive order entitled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” I wrote about it more broadly here. In short, I think the executive [...]
News and Commentary Juan Londoño has a primer for the American Action Forum about right-to-repair measures discussed in President Biden's executive order on competition. He is overly generous when dealing [...]
Rent Check It's patent quality week! I have written about patent quality as it relates to property rights. In short, if we want to view patents as property, then we [...]
The US patent system is a load-bearing feature of the innovation ecosystem and American industrial policy. It’s not always the right tool for the job, but in an economic system [...]