This paper employs a recent methodological innovation on intellectual property rights (IPRs) harmonization to project global timelines for common policies against software piracy. The findings on 99 countries are premised on 15 fundamental characteristics of software piracy based on...

This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...

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...

Few fields of international law have developed as dramatically as international intellectual property law. Proliferating international agreements on IP law (and aspects thereof) and in particular the inclusion of IP law in trade agreements have brought about ever-higher standards of IP...

The main concern of this preliminary research is to establish the place of the intellectual property rights within the classical classification of rights used by theory of law, in rights in rem and rights in personam, or as they were called by Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, multital rights and paucital...

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing...

This paper is a submission of evidence aimed at she light on some issues related to the Standard Essential Patents (SEP) ecosystem and to provide workable solutions. SEP are patents that protects technologies that are essential to implementing a standard (e.g. 5G, Bluetooth, etc.).Between...