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McKibbin, W.J.; Salvatore, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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Intellectual property as an obstacle to prosperity

Šíma, Josef - In: Politická ekonomie 2005 (2005) 3, pp. 369-382

The article describes the nature and importance of the concept of private property. It traces back the logical necessity of the respect for property as a safeguard of both peace and prosperity. Then, it surveys arguments in favor of intellectual property that allegedly coincide with those of the...

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Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution.

Richardson, G. - California Irvine - School of Social Sciences - 2000

In emerging markets today, legal protections for intellectual property are weak and enforcement is lax. Counterfeiting of consumer goods and infringement on patents, copyrights, and trademarks cost corporations hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Strengthening laws and intensifying...

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Collaborative Research in India: Academic Institution v/s Industry

Parnami, Neeraj; Parnami, Neeraj; Bandyopadhyay, T.K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The term ‘collaboration’ is used to depict the all forms of agreement between academic institutions, corporate, universities, and any combination of such two or more parties who share the commitment to reach a common goal by using their resources available. Collaboration in Research and...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Efficient Firm Organization

Ponzetto, Giacomo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

I provide a justification of intellectual property rights as a source of static efficiency gains in manufacturing, rather than dynamic benefits from greater innovation. I develop a property-rights model of a supply relationship with two dimensions of non-contractible investment. In equilibrium,...

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Of Patents and Property

Bessen, James; Meurer, Michael J. - Research on Innovation - 2009

Do patents behave substantially like property rights in tangible assets, in that they encourage development and innovation? This article notes that historical evidence, cross-country evidence, economic experiments, and estimates of net benefits all indicate that general property rights...

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Intellectual property rights and efficient firm organization

Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008

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Washington "Redskins" - Disparaging Term or Valuable Tradition?: Legal and Economic Issues Concerning Harjo v. Pro-Football, Inc.

Mark, Nagel; Daniel, Rascher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

On October 1, 2003, Judge Colleen Koller-Kotellay issued a ruling finding there was insufficient evidence to decisively conclude that the name “Redskins” was disparaging to “American Indians” (Harjo v. Pro-Football, Inc., 2003). This judgment overturned a 1999 United States Patent and...

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Institutional Analysis of Property Rights: Means of Individualization (Trademark) as an Institutional Alternative in Ensuring Quality and Specific Performance

Shulga, Shulga Ivan; Eliseev, Eliseev Aleksander; … - Faculty of Economics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State … - 2014

The paper provides analysis of means of individualization (trademarks) as an institutional alternative to ensure quality of market goods and to enforce specific contractual performance of sellers and buyers. In general, the price mechanism as described in the perfect competition paradigm fails...

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Barron, Anne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory … today – certainly in the US – is law and economics. From this perspective, copyright law exists to underpin markets in … certain categories of ‘information good’ (copyright works). These markets in turn function to ensure that the private costs …

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