creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and public enforcement in the case of trademarks). …

In the platform age, copyright-protected contents are primarily disseminated over the internet. This model poses … various challenges to the copyright regime that was mainly designed in and for the analog age. One of these challenges is … related to the fair balance between the interests of rightsholders and other members of society. Copyright norms try to …

The assertion that a 'license' is simply a 'contract not to sue' has become a commonplace in both copyright and patent … of the Copyright Act of 1976, which has been (erroneously) construed as a statute of frauds governing contract formation …

. Somewhat analogous to copyright law, it also presents a Downward Patent-Eligibility Hand Abstractions Test from an alleged …

intellectual property coalitions that fought these battles have splintered with copyright and patent holders pursuing initiatives … opposition. Until now, copyright interest groups has enjoyed the most success in enacting legislative change through the …

Corporate officer liability doctrines under both the Patent Act and the Copyright Act diverge markedly from traditional … corporate, agency, and tort law doctrines. This manuscript explores why the case law in federal patent and copyright cases … articulations of individual officer liability found in both patent and copyright law can be attributed to two factors: (1) the …

, like copyright law, use a fair use defense to address problems of market failure. Dean O'Rourke proposes just such a … defense that, while modeled on copyright doctrine, accounts for and protects patent law's particular incentive scheme …

same conditions, a copyright strategy could result in a tragedy of the anticommons (Heller 1998, Buchanan 2000). We study … 'innovate' producing words from given letters, and face the choice to copyright or copyleft their words. Subsequent words can be …