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Google+Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries, an article in YaleGlobal from 2002 by Amy Kapczynski: In 1998, 39 pharmaceutical companies filed a lawsuit against South Africa. They hoped to stop the government from producing the generic drugs that would … Continued
Monthly Archives: March 2009
SSRN Papers Dealing with IP, Development and Innovation
Image via Wikipedia The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good by Dennis Crouch Lotteries are immensely popular. Players are willing to give the organizer a large monetary cut of every ticket purchase in return for a chance … Continued
Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?: As background material, this post reviews the sizable body of empirical research analyzing the impact of patents on R&D investment and economic growth. Three future posts will present … Continued
Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud
Image via Wikipedia From the “keeping up with technology” department comes this: Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud – ReadWriteWeb: Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step guide to help you create a server on … Continued
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book by by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two economists who have proposed abolishing copyrights and patents: It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for … Continued
Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy
Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy: Two economists from Washington University have looked at current copyright and patent laws and concluded that they’re not good. The pair see current intellectual property laws as similar to “medieval trade … Continued
The Volokh Conspiracy – Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach
Image via Wikipedia The Volokh Conspiracy – Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach: This article offers a general framework for applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet. It assumes that courts will seek a technology-neutral translation … Continued
Beyond Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property: The Need For Social and Cultural Theory
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog: Beyond Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property: The Need For Social and Cultural Theory (Madhavi Sunder): Over the course of the last century intellectual property has grown exponentially, but its march into all … Continued
That Was the Copyright Year That Was (2008)
Image via Wikipedia That Was the Copyright Year That Was by Bruce E. Boyden of Marquette University Law School: I recently compiled a list of the biggest developments in copyright law in 2008, based on a not very systematic survey. … Continued
Law Librarians, Schools Propose Bold Move to Digital, Open Access Alternative
Law Librarians, Schools Propose Bold Move to Digital, Open Access Alternative – Library Journal In a broad call to action, a group of the nations’ law schools and law librarians have signed the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal … Continued
