The mean cost of developing a new drug has been the subject of debate, with recent estimates ranging from $314 million to $2.8 billion. Data were analyzed on new therapeutic [...]
News and Commentary In the most recent and interesting intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law, programmer/musicians Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin have produced an AI that generates over 300,000 [...]
Social and policy interest in intellectual property, and patents, in particular, is growing. This is reflected in the rise of scholarly inquiry on the topic beyond the legal community, including [...]
News and Commentary The band Yeasayer has filed a copyright infringement complaint against The Weekend and Kendrick Lamar over "pray for me," a track from the Black Panther movie. In another [...]
Successful innovation is essential for the survival and growth of organizations but how best to incentivize innovation is poorly understood. We compare how two common incentive schemes affect innovative performance [...]
We explore how firms grow by adding products. In contrast to most earlier work on the topic, our conceptual and empirical framework allows for separate treatment of product innovation (vertical [...]
News and Commentary The News Media Alliance has joined the coalition of pro-rightsholder organizations in an amicus brief for Oracle in Google v. Oracle. The Copyright Royalty Judges will publish a [...]
News and Commentary Here's an interesting question: can a retweet be copyright infringement? After sports psychologist employed by the Chicago Cubs Joshua Lifrak posted a quote from Keith F. Bell's [...]
News and Commentary A commentary from Nature analyses several proposals to reduce drug prices, including some modest reviews by the FDA of patents and exclusivity, finding that drug prices are unlikely [...]
News and Commentary Membership in the License on Transfer (LOT) network continues to grow as IBM joins. Why? According to IBM, it's about ensuring interoperability and avoiding the threat of [...]