Economic theory has struggled to produce a coherent narrative justifying the implementation of intellectual property regimes, although a variety of rationales have been advanced as explanations. The most prevalent justification characterizes the subject matter of intellectual property in terms...

Over the past several decades an expansion of coverage has evolved in individual intellectual property rights, especially copyright and patent. This expansion has caused overlap to occur between rights, thus allowing for an inefficient intellectual property regime that permits overreaching...

It is time to update the idea of “patent fair use” to account for the evolution of technology and of inventive paradigms in the years since O'Rourke's seminal proposal in 2000. A fair-use-type ex post approach to cabining patent exclusivity is even more attractive as a theoretical matter now...

The EU software patent could be the long awaited resolve to an extensive debate around software. The resolution should be based on the understanding of the copyright and patent basics, the legal conflict between territoriality and the internet, the experience of the existing US software patent,...

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When Congress passed the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (“URAA”) in 1994, it allowed foreign companies, for the first time, to copyright work from the public domain. In doing so, Congress undeniably restrained the air that Justice Brandeis proclaimed free when he declared, “The general rule...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed on 15 November 2020 by 15 Asian-Pacific countries (ASEAN-Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam-, and China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand),...