We use a signaling game to evaluate the incentives that affect an inventor's decision whether to work in a firm's lab or establish a start-up. The model predicts that in a "free market", in a high payoff project and in the firm's lab, the inventor's compensation will be a proportion of the...

Traditional knowledge of indigenous communities often overlaps with spiritual traditions in which certain biogenetic resources are understood to be ‘sacred’. Accordingly, one of the key concerns of these communities is to retain control over the manner in which the knowledge is used so as to...

The study of the relationship between copyright and creativity is a core research program in the field of cultural economics (Weber 2017, Bille etal. 2020). Another part of the canon is that artists gain psychic income from moral rights when a work of art is identified with its creator, whereas...

Uncertainty surrounds many issues that exist at the intersection of bankruptcy law and intellectual property law. Section 363(f) of the Bankruptcy Code permits the debtor to sell assets free of a third party’s interest in such assets, provided one or more preconditions is satisfied. When a...

Alice v. CLS Bank (“Alice”) set new software and business method patent eligibility guidelines for patent examiners and judges. In response, examiners increased their scrutiny of software applications claiming abstract ideas, creating a 75 percent decrease in grants in affected technology...