Following the latest comprehensive working paper proposal for the Intellectual Property Currency (IPC) at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4160537, we have built a scenario showing a specific example of the IPC framework for better understanding it. The scenario describes a quantitative story...

There has been a longstanding concern about protecting intellectual capital. The legislation awards a generator of the capital with a finite period of a monopoly right to access it.Under the protection, a right holder may exclusively exploit its intellectual capital and assign or license the...

Rapid advances in digital and life sciences technology continue to spur the evolution of intellectual property law. As professors and practitioners in this field know all too well, Congress and the courts continue to develop intellectual property law and jurisprudence at a rapid pace. For that...

Video games raise various legal questions and challenges for the IPR system, mainly due to the complexity and segmentation of the game and there is some particular problem with a particular video like trademark registration, and copyrighted content directly such as sound effects. The current...

This study provides that copyright exhaustion serves an important social function of reducing the cost of information costs. Without it, buyers will be required to waste time and resources inquiring about their ability to resell copyrighted work. Because resale rights are generally regarded as...

This article is part of a wider project funded by the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship and a forthcoming CUP monograph on Intellectual Property and the Human Rights of Companies in Europe. The project and book seek to retrace the genesis and rationale for the extension of human rights...

We develop a Schumpeterian growth model to analyze the interaction between patent policy and firms’ internal strategies to capture value from innovations. We consider two dimensions of patent policy: backward protection against imitation and forward protection, also known as blocking patents,...

Recently, nations depend more in cyber networks to bring national prosperities, and provide government with various services. But these networks intrude, destruct and attack our property, privacy, economy, social life in a way which is harmful. This handbook presents important issues on the...