Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2003 Abstract: There is growing public interest in alternatives to intellectual property including, but not limited to, prizes and government grants. We argue that there is […]
Procuring Knowledge
The Core and Hedonic Core: Reply to Wooders (2001), with Counterexamples
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2003 Abstract: In response to Wooders (2001), I review the contributions of Engl and Scotchmer (1996) regarding monotonicity and the hedonic core, show how our contributions […]
Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2000 Abstract: We investigate how liability rules and property rules protect intellectual property. Infringement might not be deterred under any of the enforcement regimes available. However, […]
Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2006 Abstract: Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives […]
Efficient Process or “Chilling Effects”? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Author(s): Jennifer Urban Year: 2006 Abstract: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, created a process that was intended to help copyright owners ensure rapid removal of allegedly infringing material from the Internet […]
Envisioning Copyright Law’s Digital Future
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2009 Abstract: Copyright initially developed in response to the printing press and gradually evolved to encompass other methods of mechanically storing and reproducing works of […]
Bankruptcy Treatment of Intellectual Property Assets: An Economic Analysis
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2009 Abstract: With the rise of intellectual property in the modern economy, bankruptcy treatment of intellectual property assets has taken on ever greater importance. The […]
An Economic Assessment of Market-Based Approaches to Regulating the Municipal Solid Waste Stream
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2004 Abstract: In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was widely reported that the United States faced a solid waste crisis. Existing landfills were […]
A Method for Reforming the Patent System
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2007 Abstract: The principal recent studies of patent reform (NAS (2004), FTC (2003), Jaffe and Lerner (2004)) contend that a uniform system of patent protection […]
Intellectual Property and the Law of Land
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2008 Abstract: In his response to my previous Regulation article, Professor Richard Epstein misses the gist and key implications of my criticism of his position. […]