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 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 Intellectual Property, June 1st
News and Commentary Following the passage of the European Union's Copyright Directive in 2019, it goes to the EU member states to implement its provisions, the most controversial of which [...]
Bankrupt Innovative Firms
This paper studies how innovative firms manage their innovation portfolios after filing for Chapter 11 reorganization using three decades of data. We find that they sell off core (i.e., technologically [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, May 25th
News and Commentary A revised version of the proposed TRIPS waiver on the requirements to implement and enforce intellectual property rights has been introduced. The new text sets a firmer [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, May 18th
News and Commentary The Niskanen Center has come out in support of the Biden Administration's announcement in support of a TRIPS waiver for intellectual property enforcement during the COVID pandemic. [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, April 6th
News and Commentary It's finally out! After nearly 10 years, Google v. Oracle has been decided at the Supreme Court in favor of Google. Justice Breyer wrote the opinion, finding that [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, March 31st
News and Commentary The Hollywood Reporter writes about the $20 million copyright infringement claim made against Paramount Pictures based solely on a draft screenplay being circulated. The dispute centers on whether [...]