In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...

The patent industries have discovered the global marketplace. While the practice of patented technologies is now international, patent rights remain territorial. Various international developments facilitate the acquisition of patent rights around the world. However, dispute resolution...

This short essay assesses distinct approaches to delimiting intellectual property. Specifically, it addresses claims to control spillovers without which culture cannot move forward, notably spillovers of texts, images, techniques, information, ideas, etc. It contrasts methodologies: on the one...

The articles discusses the management of the cultural diversity in Indonesian archipelago by incorporating the web 2.0 and participatory database documentation system. Things related to the reports and researches that have been brought related to the on going collecting data is discussed,...

The last several years have witnessed a flurry of transformative patent reform activity. The Supreme Court has issued key rulings affecting the availability of injunctive and declaratory relief, revised the law of obviousness, and limited the extraterritorial reach of the patent act. Now...

This dialogue, between a philosopher and a lawyer, dramatizes the economic analysis of intellectual property critically. To start, with a stylized example of such property, it illustrates problems that the law has to address as cultural goods, such as works and inventions, tend to become public...

Software patenting in the United States has been a relevant and well regulated phenomenon since the 1980s. On the contrary, the European Union lagged behind for a long time. This work gives an account of the above mentioned topic. The fact that European Patent Convention expressively prohibits...

Patents are one of the most valuable sources of technical and commercial knowledge. Although patents are public and can be easily searched on the Web, for most countries, there is no easy way to download bulk patent data. The purpose of this paper is to create a web mining framework used to...

How does the development of formal standards for information and communication technologies shape the behavior of firms that may need the technologies to develop new products and services? We argue that standardization lowers the search costs of identifying important intellectual property rights...

In recent years, high-profile lawsuits involving standards-essential patents (SEPs) have made headlines in the United States, Europe, and Asia, leading to a heated public debate regarding the role and impact of patents covering key interoperability standards. Enforcement agencies around the...