The Copyright Divide
Most recently, the recording industry filed 261 lawsuits against individuals who illegally downloaded and distributed a large amount of music via peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, such as KaZaA, Grokster, iMesh, and [...]
Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis
This paper examines how intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affects innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a North–South quality-ladder model incorporating the exogenous and costless imitation of technology and [...]
Intellectual Property, Economic Development, and the China Puzzle
This book chapter examines the relationship between intellectual property protection and economic development. It begins by exploring the conventional linkage between intellectual property protection and foreign direct investment. The chapter [...]
World Investment Report 2018: Investment and New Industrial Policies
Global flows of foreign direct investment fell by 23 per cent in 2017. Cross-border investment in developed and transition economies dropped sharply, while growth was near zero in developing economies. [...]
Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment: A Welfare Analysis
This paper examines how intellectual property rights (IPR) protection affects innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a North–South quality-ladder model incorporating the exogenous and costless imitation of technology and [...]
What Happens When Books Enter the Public Domain? Testing Copyright’s Underuse Hypothesis Across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada
The United States (‘US’) extended most copyright terms by 20 years in 1998, and has since exported that extension via ‘free trade’ agreements to countries including Australia and Canada. A [...]
Annual Intellectual Property Report to Congress
This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which approximately 11,200 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders which halted examination and [...]
Differential Pricing for Pharmaceuticals: Reconciling Access, R&D and Patents
This paper reviews the economic case for patents and the potential for differential pricing to increase affordability of on-patent drugs in developing countries while preserving incentives for innovation. Differential pricing, [...]
Unilateral Tariffs vs. The Rule of Trade Law: The Case of Trade Secrets
A specific focus of any WTO complaint by the United States relating to the failure of China to enforce the protection of trade secrets will be the continuing legal shortcomings [...]
Intellectual Property and China: Is China Stealing American IP?
How do you think this challenge is best addressed? How can China and other countries be made to adhere to IP agreements?Within the confines of trade, that’s a hard question. [...]