Scholars who point to political influences and the regulatory function of patent courts in the U.S. have long … patent and which attracted criticism for a wealth of different reasons, are fine case studies of the current debate over the … innovation. In doing so, these decisions essentially endorse practices of personal information processing which constitute a new …

a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for …We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider … innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the duration of a country's patents that are applied with national …

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of monopolies to right- holders. Various theories have been propounded in justifying copyright and patents protection …- encompassing theory of justification for the protection of copyright and patents. It establishes that these theories are neatly …