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This study investigates the role of trademarks in the start-up valuations of venture capitalists (VCs). Our results show that the number and breadth of trademark applications have inverted U-shaped relationships with the financial valuations of start-ups by VCs. The findings also indicate that...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the innovative activity of the top corporate R&D investors worldwide and their valuation on the financial markets. The empirical analysis is based on a sample of more than 1,500 top publicly listed Multinational Corporations (MNCs) performing a...
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This chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning literature on the law and economics of intellectual property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and...
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The doctrines of trademark genericism and functionality serve similar functions under the Lanham Act and the common law of unfair competition. Genericism, in the context of word marks, and functionality, for trade dress, bar trademark registration under the Lanham Act and, both under the Act and...
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Free and Open source software have changed large parts of the software industry landscape in a few years period. Due to their peculiar nature, FOSS communities have created a new development model, whose core is represented by their aim of fostering a feeling of commitment and participation...
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This Article examines the complex world of Internet search. The Article seeks to ensure that trademark law does not interfere with the free flow of Internet content that consumers find relevant. The Article starts with three complementary looks at Internet search from the perspectives of...
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the worlds of marketing, economics and accounting that intangible assets associated with trademarks, brands and goodwill …
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Powerful brands dominate our transnational landscapes. Brand value — referred to in law as trademark goodwill — is co … consumer patronage, trademark goodwill is critically important not only for business ability to attract and retain customers …. This Article focuses on the role of trademark goodwill in signaling sustainability standards as key informational …
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‘Trademark Dilution Doctrine’ is basically a trademark law concept which permits the owner of a famous or a well known trademark to refrain others from using that mark in a way which would harm its reputation. In most cases, trademark dilution involves an unauthorized use of another's...
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