Nanotechnology has experienced an accelerated development during the last 20 years. The newness of the topic -- combined with the high potential of the technology in terms of capacity to impact people's lives and the business universe expected to be generated -- has produced extensive...

The remuneration of employee inventions in corporations is a relatively controversial topic in the field of intellectual property. In many countries, there are ongoing lawsuits over the amount of remuneration between the inventor and the employer. The available scholarly literature and...

This symposium article discusses issues raised for patent processes and policy created by inventions generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Using insights from economic research on intellectual property rights, it argues in favor of allowing patent protection for AI-generated inventions....