This Week in Intellectual Property, July 21st
News and Commentary In Forbes, Peter Suciu discusses latest social media crackdowns on copyright infringement, most recently by Twitch, pushed mostly by the RIAA in a manner reminiscent to the [...]
Closing the Streaming Loophole
Creativity and innovation are flourishing in the entertainment industries. But the growing threat of streaming piracy presents a major challenge to the continued vitality of legitimate online video services like [...]
The Patents-Based Pharmaceutical Development Process: Rationale, Problems, and Potential Reforms
The pharmaceutical industry is facing substantial criticism from many directions, including financial barriers to access to drugs in both developed and developing countries, high profits, spending on advertising and marketing, [...]
Estimating The Cost Of Delayed Generic Drug Entry To Medicaid
Delays in market entry of generic drugs are common. This study sought to identify the prevalence of delayed entry, the reasons for the delays, and the delays’ effects on Medicaid [...]
Technology Diffusion
The importance of new technologies derives from the fact that they spread across many different users and uses, as well as different geographic regions. The diffusion of technological improvements, across [...]
Market Effects Bearing on Fair Use
Copyright law, which promotes the creation of cultural and artistic works by protecting these works from being copied, excuses infringement that is deemed to be a fair use. Whether an [...]
Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation
This paper studies how insurance coverage policies affect incentives for pharmaceutical innovation. In the United States, the majority of drugs are sold to Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), which administer prescription [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 14th
Rent Check Two bills to subsidize the production of semiconductors in the United States have been introduced in the Senate. This legislation would be complemented by placing any resultant patents [...]
A Perfect Opportunity for a Patent Pool
Two bills to promote semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S., the American Foundries Act and the CHIPS for America Act, have been introduced in the Senate as part of an effort [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 7th
Rent Check Gilead has released its pricing plan for the drug remdesivir, focusing exclusively on the welfare provided by the drug in a plan totally foreign to almost any other [...]