This study provides a first comprehensive picture of the use of intellectual property (IP) rights as loan collateral, its determinants, and its impact on firm trajectories. Using novel administrative data, we exploit the French institutional setting and show that a broad set of firms from...

The study at hand delves into the technologies composing blockchain and designates its most significant practical applications to date. The technological ecosystem identified through this investigation is then scrutinized from the perspective of intellectual property law. It examines, in...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent the main hope for peace and prosperity in the near future, according to the 2030 UN Agenda. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a significant technological advancement of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Intellectual Property (IP) is the system...

The first sale doctrine decouples intellectual property and physical property. Suppose, at an auction at Sotheby’s, someone bought a contemporary painting by Chuck Close. The buyer now owns the physical painting, but the copyright to the painting remains with the owner of the copyright—the...

Precedent studies have designed a novel financial mechanism ensuring others access and exploit intellectual capital while protecting the right holder’s profit. By the mechanism, the national central bank would fund the generation and adoption of intellectual capital, e.g., a license fee, and...

The promotion of national commerce through federal trademark law is closely aligned with the promotion of “Progress” through the federal copyright and patent statutes. All forms of intellectual property share larger goals of overall human flourishing, and not simply private economic benefit....

Intellectual property generally rests on the assumption that markets will bring about an ideal allocation of resources. Nonetheless, copyright law remains riddled with regimes that bypass or restructure normal market licensing between copyright owners and distributors such as streaming services,...