Using a household level dataset, we measure the impact of a website blocking agreement based on DNS filtering on digital piracy and the consumption of pay-TV, Video on Demand, and paid entertainment channels. Our results show that blocking access to copyright infringing websites reduces Internet...

The global pandemic of the coronavirus virus (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout the world, resulting in a significant public health crisis in the United States. Vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics, including the specific goal of delivering 300 million doses of a safe, effective...

The increasing use of digital technologies by governments and companies raises numerous questions regarding the regulation of these technologies, particularly regarding the rights and legal protections citizens are entitled to. The focus is mostly on the application and potential modification of...

The relevant disclosure policies in China are late and weakly binding in comparison to developed capital markets like the US, which have systematic and mandatory patent disclosure requirements. As a result, Chinese companies are more selective in their patent disclosure actions, which causes...

The administrative law lays out limits on the ways that federal agencies may use guidance documents vis-à-vis rights of the public. It’s crucial for every patent practitioner to understand those limits—when does the MPEP state binding law, when is it mere aspiration for what an agency would...

Geographical indications are is a sign used on goods that distinguishes a product depending on its place of source and have qualities or a brand image as a result of that source. The research has concentrated on idea of geographical indication, current regulatory mechanisms for geographical...

According to Nordhaus, the optimal life of a patent T* trades off the ``embarrassment" of monopoly with motivating innovation, given that imitators would otherwise copy inventions and, in competing with innovators, reduce their profit hence incentive to innovate. To test this argument, we...

The chapter highlights how certain areas of IP Indian regimes are based on firm public interest focused principles. They not only offer IP owners monopolistic rights to extract economic value out of their inventions, plant varieties, signs or copyrighted works—they also strongly protect the...

We focus on the enforcement of trademark rights, particularly those used against counterfeiters, or those who use unauthorized trademarks of another. We examine the concept of extraterritorial enforcement of trademark rights — the extending of enforcement across national borders — and...

This article discusses about some of the business industries that potentially attract foreign investors to transfer their intellectual property to Afghanistan. Though many foreign investors may have a massive fear about instability and poor rule of law in Afghanistan, the country can still offer...