Huge amounts of money will soon be spent by governments and private entities to develop technology to reduce the costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to deploy new energy and transportation infrastructures. Incredibly, we still lack any good idea of the best means of providing...

This paper sets out findings from research into innovation dynamics in the mobile technology ecosystem in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The findings are drawn from a survey of 25 mobile tech startups, all but one of which were, at the time of the research, located at, or were linked to, one of...

In India, the trend of IPR filing has been documented for scientific agencies or academic institutions, firms in the software industry, manufacturing sector, handicrafts, glassware and other small-scale industries. However, the IPR filing behaviour or protection of IPRs by Indian Technology...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a media company in possession of a good fortune (an audience, brand recognition and decent revenues), must (still) be in want of innovation.The pace of change in our industry means that even the biggest, most successful, companies need to continually...

This essay, written for the National Association of Environmental Law Societies' (NAELS) annual meeting, explains how patent law operates generally with an emphasis on how it may impact the environment in particular. In so doing, the essay addresses from a patent perspective some representative...

In many facets of life, individuals make evaluations that they often update after consulting with others in their peer networks. But not all individuals have the same positional opportunities for social interaction in a given network, nor the ability and desire to make use of those opportunities...

In March 2012, “Patents and Public Rights: The Questionable Constitutionality of Patents before Article I Tribunals After Stern v. Marshall” published in the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. Since the article’s publication, its arguments, or permutations of its arguments, have...

Intellectual property regulation, taken at its broadest level, is concerned with the production, access to, use of and control over knowledge and a wide range of other intangible resources. These include, but are not limited to, inventions, ideas, songs, designs, aspects of cultural heritage,...

Prior to decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States in eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C. and Winter v. NRDC, appellate courts routinely affirmed the exercise of discretion by district courts to grant injunctive relief in trademark cases. Indeed, if trademark owners made out a prima...

In the land of ‘Jugaad’, where everyone is able to find a frugal fix toany problem, innovation is still dismal. Innovation in India is dismal not because of the lack of grey matter, but because India is systemically failing its inventors – firstly, through an education system that focuses...