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Publish Or Perish, Gideon Parchomovsky Feb 2000

Publish Or Perish, Gideon Parchomovsky

Michigan Law Review

The race model has been the darling of patent economists and game theorists. This model assumes that the winner, namely the first to invent, takes the patent grant with the market dominance that comes with it, whereas the second comer, in the best tradition of sports contests, obligingly accepts her loss and quietly vanishes from the scene. While the sports analogy has provided a useful framework for understanding the economics of invention, it has obfuscated an important aspect of the inventive process: the possibility of strategic publication of research findings in order to prevent the issuance of a patent to …


Analyze This: A Law And Economics Agenda For The Patent System, Rebecca S. Eisenberg Jan 2000

Analyze This: A Law And Economics Agenda For The Patent System, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Articles

Legal scholars and economists might enhance the value and impact of their work by making more effective use of each other's knowledge and capabilities. Legal scholars can offer a more nuanced understanding of the legal rules that underlie the patent system and the doctrinal levers that might be manipulated in furtherance of public policy goals. Economists bring to bear a set of analytical and methodological tools that could shed considerable light on what these doctrinal levers are doing and which of them we ought to be manipulating. Together, we have a better chance of asking the right questions and thinking …


Copyright And The Perfect Curve, Julie E. Cohen Jan 2000

Copyright And The Perfect Curve, Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay argues that the assumption that “progress” is qualitatively independent of the underlying entitlement structure is wrong. In particular, I shall argue that a shift to a copyright rule structure based on highly granular, contractually enforced “price discrimination” would work a fundamental shift, as well, in the nature of the progress produced. The critique of the contractual price discrimination model, moreover, exposes deep defects in the use of neoclassical “law and economics” methodology to solve problems relating to the incentive structure of copyright law. What is needed, instead, is an economic model of copyright that acknowledges the central role …


Limiting Patentees' Market Power Without Reducing Innovation Incentives: The Perverse Benefits Of Uncertainty And Non-Injunctive Remedies, Ian Ayres, Paul Klemperer Jan 1999

Limiting Patentees' Market Power Without Reducing Innovation Incentives: The Perverse Benefits Of Uncertainty And Non-Injunctive Remedies, Ian Ayres, Paul Klemperer

Michigan Law Review

Uncertainty and delay in patent litigation may have unforeseen virtues. The combination of these oft-criticized characteristics might induce a limited amount of infringement that enhances social welfare without reducing (or without substantially reducing) the profitability of the patentee. Patent infringement is generally viewed as socially inefficient because infringement reduces the patentee's ex ante incentive to innovate. Limited amounts of infringement combined with increased patent duration, however, can substantially reduce the distortionary ex post effects of supracompetitive pricing without reducing the patentee's ex ante incentives to innovate. Indeed, this Article derives a legal regime that preserves the incentive to innovate by …


When Does A Work Infringe The Derivative Works Right Of A Copyright Owner?, Amy B. Cohen Jan 1999

When Does A Work Infringe The Derivative Works Right Of A Copyright Owner?, Amy B. Cohen

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Lochner In Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy Of "Rights Management", Julie E. Cohen Nov 1998

Lochner In Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy Of "Rights Management", Julie E. Cohen

Michigan Law Review

Ninety-three years ago, in Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court struck down a maximum-working-hours law for bakers as an impermissible invasion of employer-employee liberty of contract and, by implication, of the employer's property rights in his business. Lochner came to symbolize, and was vilified for, a vision of state power as rigidly circumscribed by the operation of judicially-determined laws of social ordering. By the late 1930s, the Court had changed course and accepted that the states' police power - or, in the case of Congress, the commerce power - encompassed even protective regulation of the parameters of the private …


Lochner In Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy Of "Rights Management", Julie E. Cohen Jan 1998

Lochner In Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy Of "Rights Management", Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Part I of this Article describes the economic models now proffered as the basis for defining rights in digital works, and explores their striking resemblance to the system of social ordering described and advanced in the Supreme Court's Lochner-era decisions. The ghost of Lochner is not invoked lightly, nor with intent to belittle. Lochner represented a particular ideal of social ordering, premised on a seamless convergence of the private-law institutions of property and contract to provide a zone of legal insulation for market outcomes. In the physical world, that vision has long been compromised by evidence of market failures …


An Economic Analysis Of Intellectual Property Rights: Justifications And Problems Of Exclusive Rights, Incentives To Generate Information, And The Alternative Of A Government Run Reward System, Steve Calandrillo Jan 1998

An Economic Analysis Of Intellectual Property Rights: Justifications And Problems Of Exclusive Rights, Incentives To Generate Information, And The Alternative Of A Government Run Reward System, Steve Calandrillo

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This article examines and questions the traditional justifications for intellectual property (I.P.) rights in America (focusing on copyright and patent law), and explores incentives necessary to induce the creation of these works of information. I conclude that changes are needed to I.P. law in order to best foster society's dual goals of 1) promoting incentives to create I.P. works (such as currently patented drugs), while also 2) maximizing distribution of those products to all consumers who would stand to gain (and not merely those who can afford the monopoly price charged). Hence, I suggest the creation of a Government-Run Reward …


Early Patent Publication: A Boon Or Bane? A Discussion On The Legal And Economic Effects Of Publishing Patent Applications After 18 Months Of Filing, John F. Duffy, Hayden Gregory, Robert Rines, Herbert Wamsley, Douglas Wyatt Jan 1998

Early Patent Publication: A Boon Or Bane? A Discussion On The Legal And Economic Effects Of Publishing Patent Applications After 18 Months Of Filing, John F. Duffy, Hayden Gregory, Robert Rines, Herbert Wamsley, Douglas Wyatt

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Price Discrimination, Personal Use And Piracy: Copyright Protection Of Digital Works, Michael J. Meurer Dec 1997

Price Discrimination, Personal Use And Piracy: Copyright Protection Of Digital Works, Michael J. Meurer

Faculty Scholarship

The growth of digital information transmission worries copyright holders who fear the new technology threatens their profits because of greater piracy and widespread sharing of digital works. They have responded with proposals for expanded protection of digital works. Specifically, they seek restrictions on personal use rights regarding digital works provided by the fair use and first sale doctrines. The proposed changes in the allocation of property rights to digital information significantly affect the ability of copyright holders to practice price discrimination. Broader user rights make discrimination more difficult; broader producer rights make discrimination easier. I argue that more price discrimination …


Is Turn About Fair Play? Copyright Law And The Fair Use Of Computer Software Loaded Into Ram, Chad G. Asarch Dec 1996

Is Turn About Fair Play? Copyright Law And The Fair Use Of Computer Software Loaded Into Ram, Chad G. Asarch

Michigan Law Review

Computer systems, especially those in heavy-use commercial settings, often require routine maintenance to continue functioning properly. Many businesses turn to an independent service organization ("IS0") to provide computer maintenance services because ISOs frequently charge less than the original equipment manufacturer ("OEM") for those services. The tremendous growth in computer use has spawned a multi-billion dollar computer maintenance industry in the United States, and ISOs and OEMs have become engaged in fierce competition for this computer service business. The struggle between ISOs and OEMs to capture this expanding market has spilled over into the courts, spawning a number of recent decisions …


Rhetoric And Reality In Copyright Law, Stewart E. Sterk Mar 1996

Rhetoric And Reality In Copyright Law, Stewart E. Sterk

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The article challenges traditional justifications for copyright law, particularly the notions of desert and corrective justice, arguing that these frameworks fail to provide a robust foundation for intellectual property rights. Instead, it posits that the justification for copyright protection must primarily lie in the incentive to promote creative activity. The analysis critiques the application of Lockean labor theory and restitutionary models, emphasizing that distributive justice, which focuses on the moral worth and social contributions of creators, offers a more coherent basis for copyright law.


The Implications Of The New Regime For Global Competition Policy: Intellectual Property Rights, Economic Power, And Global Technological Integration, David J. Gerber Jan 1996

The Implications Of The New Regime For Global Competition Policy: Intellectual Property Rights, Economic Power, And Global Technological Integration, David J. Gerber

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Economics Of Copyright, Robert G. Bone, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1996

The Economics Of Copyright, Robert G. Bone, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

Copyright law protects works of creative expression. At its relatively uncontroversial core lie songs, plays, novels, paintings, and other works of aesthetic value. But copyright is not confined solely to aesthetic subject matter; in many countries, it extends to works of fact, such as biographies, maps, and telephone directories, and to works with practical value. For example, one of the most controversial issues in copyright law today is whether and how much copyright should protect computer programs.


Cyberlaw And Social Change: A Democratic Approach To Copyright Law In Cyberspace, Niva Elkin-Koren Jan 1996

Cyberlaw And Social Change: A Democratic Approach To Copyright Law In Cyberspace, Niva Elkin-Koren

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The 1992 Cable Act And The First Amendment: What Must, Must Not, And May Be Carried, Gary S. Lutzker Jan 1994

The 1992 Cable Act And The First Amendment: What Must, Must Not, And May Be Carried, Gary S. Lutzker

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


What's Art Got To Do With It?, Wendy J. Gordon Nov 1993

What's Art Got To Do With It?, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

I would like to thank the Cardozo LR for their invitation to speak, and all those who have taken the time to discuss this issue w[ith] me in the recent past, including my commentator Marci Hamilton. I also thank the audience for its attendance and attention, and I look forward to the criticisms/reactions from all of you and from Prof Hamilton.


Defining The Prisoners' Dilemma, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1992

Defining The Prisoners' Dilemma, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

Formally, a prisoner's dilemma is defined as follows: There are two participants symmetrically situated. For each player, her payoff if she refuses to cooperate with the other player is higher than her payoff would be if she cooperated, and this is true whether the other chooses to cooperate, or chooses to defect. If both cooperate, her payoff will be higher than if both defect.


Intellectual Property In International Trade: Opportunities And Risks Of A Gatt Connection, J. H. Reichman Jan 1989

Intellectual Property In International Trade: Opportunities And Risks Of A Gatt Connection, J. H. Reichman

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Professor Reichman uncovers a paradox at the heart of the debate about bringing international intellectual property relations within a GATT Code of Conduct. On the one hand, the industrialized countries that subscribe to free-market principles at home want to impose a highly regulated market for intellectual goods on the rest of the world, one in which authors and inventors may "reap where they have sown." On the other hand, the developing countries that restrict free competition at home envision a totally unregulated world market for intellectual goods, one in which "competition is the lifeblood of commerce." To unravel this paradox, …


Trademark Law, Economics And Grey-Market Policy, Lars H. Liebeler Jul 1987

Trademark Law, Economics And Grey-Market Policy, Lars H. Liebeler

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Letter To Bruce Ackerman, Wendy J. Gordon Sep 1986

Letter To Bruce Ackerman, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

I shall be heading back to Rutgers for classes shortly, and I'm sending you a draft of the "Copyright and Copy-privilege" piece in the hope of receiving some additional comments before I enter into the final "polishing" stages later this month. As you know from my last note, the suggestions you made have proved extremely useful -- the title is the least of it. Among other things, your suggestions for reorganization led, indirectly, to a way of unifying the piece on copyright and contract with another piece I've been working on, regarding copyright and tort. I'm very pleased with the …


Legal Semiotics, Susan W. Tiefenbrun Jan 1986

Legal Semiotics, Susan W. Tiefenbrun

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Administration's Legislation: The National Cooperative Research Act Of 1984, The National Productivity And Innovation Act Of 1983, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 607 (1985), Kelly L. Morron Jan 1985

The Administration's Legislation: The National Cooperative Research Act Of 1984, The National Productivity And Innovation Act Of 1983, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 607 (1985), Kelly L. Morron

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Economic Analysis Of Royalty Terms In Patent Licenses, Michael J. Meurer Jul 1983

An Economic Analysis Of Royalty Terms In Patent Licenses, Michael J. Meurer

Faculty Scholarship

Efficient exploitation of a patent often requires patentees to license users of their inventions. The courts, on the other hand, have proscribed many forms of license agreements and discouraged patent licensing in general, thereby diminishing the efficacy of the patent system as a stimulus to R & D. This negative attitude is attributable to fears that licensing will be used to protect invalid patents and secure illegitimate extensions of monopoly power. Part I of this Note reviews judicial treatment of certain royalty terms in patent licenses, describing the restraints the courts have imposed on the freedom of patentees to license …


Public Performance Right In Recordings: How To Alter The Copyright System Without Improving It, Lewis Kurlantzick Jan 1975

Public Performance Right In Recordings: How To Alter The Copyright System Without Improving It, Lewis Kurlantzick

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Economic Pressure And Antitrust (With James A. Wilkinson), Henry H. Perritt Jr. Mar 1974

Economic Pressure And Antitrust (With James A. Wilkinson), Henry H. Perritt Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Patent-Antitrust Balance: Proposals For Change, N.R. Powers Jan 1972

The Patent-Antitrust Balance: Proposals For Change, N.R. Powers

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Principal Trademark Registration And Patent Policy: An Inherent Conflict Which Requires Denial Of Registration To Container Designs, Thomas R. Hendershot Jan 1971

Principal Trademark Registration And Patent Policy: An Inherent Conflict Which Requires Denial Of Registration To Container Designs, Thomas R. Hendershot

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Vaughan: The United States Patent System, Arthur M. Smith Mar 1958

Vaughan: The United States Patent System, Arthur M. Smith

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The United States Patent System. By Floyd L. Vaughan.


Vaughan: The United States Patent System. Legal And Economic Conflicts In American Patent History, Bernard F. Garvey Apr 1956

Vaughan: The United States Patent System. Legal And Economic Conflicts In American Patent History, Bernard F. Garvey

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The United States Patent System. Legal and Economic Conflicts in American Patent History. By Floyd L. Vaughan.