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The Google Book search settlement: A law and economics analysis
Müller-Langer, Frank; Scheufen, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
negative effects due to an erosion of copyright law. Our law and economics analysis of the Book Search Project suggests that … – from a copyright perspective – the proposed settlement may be beneficial to right holders, consumers, and Google. For …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397206
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Trade sustainability impact assessment (SIA) on the comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) between the EU and Canada: Final report
Kirkpatrick, Colin; Raihan, Selim; Bleser, Adam; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Commissioned by the European Commission, the Final Report for the EU-Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the potential impacts of trade liberalisation under CETA. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647267
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Digital Rights Management and Consumer Acceptability: A Multi-Disciplinary Discussion of Consumer Concerns and Expectations
Helberger, Natali; Kerényi, Kristóf; Krings, Bettina; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
issues go beyond the scope of copyright law, i.e. the field of law where DRM was traditionally discussed. Often they are a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789558
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Trademark Values in Corporate Restructuring
Torres, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In corporate restructuring under Chapter 11, an asset valuation is a central task for both legal and financial reasons. In the area of intangible assets, however, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) do not reflect internally-generated assets such as brands, trademarks, and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836409
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Zum Nutzen internationaler Standards bei der Vergabe von Genpatenten - Eine vergleichende Analyse am Beispiel der EU und Japans
Gilroy, Bernard Michael; Vollpert, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The specific characteristics of the R&D system of the modern molecular biotechnology lead to the fact that patent protection for genetic inventions cause almost simultaneously an useful information effect as well as a harmful blocking effect. Within this context, the present papers shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472247
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Licensing probabilistic Patents and Liability Rules: The Duopoly case
Vargas Barrenechea, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper a game is used to compare the licensing of a cost reduction innovations under lost profits (LP) and unjust enrichment (UE), both damage rules that are used by courts in the calculation of damages when a patent has been infringed. The market is composed by two homogeneous firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034377
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Measuring, Explaining and Addressing Patent Quality Issues in China
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Although China became the world's leading patent filer in 2011, patent quality is still a serious issue in the country. This article first provides a statistical snapshot of this situation and then discusses how China's network of patent-related policies and practices in certain cases actually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108084
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Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in-depth legal, management science, and economic analysis in the study shows that various patent-related policies and practices actually hamper patent quality and innovation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258189
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How certain indigenous innovation and other patent policies hamper innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least partially meant to stimulate patents and “indigenous innovation.” However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of these policies in effect can actually discourage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258198
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Copyright and market structure under vertical relations
Nakanishi, Yasuo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this study is to investigate the copyright protection of intellectual property under vertical relations … investigate the effect of copyright protection by modeling the cases of perfect protection, partial protection and no protection …. We analyze whether copyright benefits social welfare. We explain the policy implications of our results for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325631