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Policy Tailors And The Rookie Regulator, Sarah Tran
Policy Tailors And The Rookie Regulator, Sarah Tran
Sarah Tran
Commentators have long lamented the lack of policy tailoring in the patent system. But unlike other administrative agencies, who regularly tailor regulatory policies to the needs of specific industries, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) was widely believed to lack the authority and institutional competence for such policymaking. This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of recent legislative reforms to the PTO’s policymaking authority. It shows the reforms empower the PTO to have a larger say in patent policy than ever before. The big question is thus: to what extent is it good policy for a rookie regulator to …
Valuing Publication And Attribution In Intellectual Property, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco, Zachary Burns
Valuing Publication And Attribution In Intellectual Property, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco, Zachary Burns
Christopher Sprigman
This is the third in a series of articles focusing on the experimental economics of intellectual property. In earlier work, we have experimentally studied the ways in which creators assign monetary value to the things that they create. That research has suggested that creators are subject to a systematic bias that leads them to overvalue their work. This bias, which we have called the 'creativity effect,' potentially results in inefficient markets in IP, because creators may be unwilling to license their works for rational amounts. Our prior research, however, like American IP law itself, focused exclusively on the monetary value …
The Creativity Effect, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco
The Creativity Effect, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco
Christopher Sprigman
This paper reports the first experiment to demonstrate the existence of a valuation anomaly associated with the creation of new works. To date, a wealth of social science research has shown that substantial valuation asymmetries exist between owners of goods and potential purchasers of them. The least amount of money that owners are willing to accept to part with their possessions is often far greater than the amount that purchasers would be willing to pay to obtain them. This phenomenon, known as the endowment effect, may create substantial inefficiencies in many markets. Our experiment demonstrates the existence of a related …