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as trademarks, patents, copyright or indeed goodwill). Such questions may, for example, arise the context of a merger …
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in bilateral and regional trade agreements. Our analysis focuses on three areas of IP - copyright, geographical …
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One of the foundational assumptions of patent law is that imbuing inventions with intellectual property rights (IPR) is necessary to bring forth innovation. We test this foundational assumption by examining the impact of IPR on commercialization of university research. Using the full set of US...
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Contemporary intellectual property law applications illustrate a very dynamic and rapidly evolving conceptual environment. The proverbial conflict has been between the protection of intellectual creation and the general freedom to create de novo, including expressions of one’s intellect that...
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In 1992, Congress passed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), a statute designed to prevent the further spread of state-sponsored sports-wagering. The statute’s language has the effect of granting a property right to sports leagues, implicating the Constitution’s...
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, that the scope of copyright protection for software is comparatively limited. Both propositions have become considerably … F.3d 1339 (Fed. Cir. 2014), extended far more expansive copyright protection to functional software components than … question what legal regime (if any) should govern the creation of computer software. Congress extended copyright protection to …
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In some countries an IP owner’s attempts to defend or enforce its IP rights in a conventional way may face difficulties, particularly if the country’s judiciary is not able to effectively render justice since it lacks the necessary resources, if the courts are subject to interventions by the...
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This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent era. Using a panel dataset of 2,251 albums' U.S. sales and file sharing downloads on a private network during 2008, I estimate the effect of file sharing on album sales....
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There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding … piracy and display consistency in the implementation of copyright protection legislation. …
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