The object of the current research is the insurance of intellectual property in the light of its very essence and the overall frame in which it exists and develops worldwide. There are two problematic issues on this topic, from which various other problems, with less importance but still...

This essay calls for experts’ opinions, ideas, and proposals on fundamental concepts of Intellectual Property Currency in international macroeconomics. The notions may include global reserve assets, a solution to the monetary trilemma, and asymmetric monetary adjustment with managed floating...

Economic development is the process whereby simple, low-income national economies are transformed into modern industrial economies. Although the term is sometimes used as a synonym for economic growth, generally it is employed to describe a change in a country’s economy involving qualitative...

I consider a technology holder that has to decide whether to file for a patent or rely on secrecy,and a competing firm that can enter the market through technology transfer or imitation. Acknowledging that imitation is uncertain, imperfect, and takes time to materialise, as well as that...

The purpose of this research is to evaluate unfair competition in Nigerian commercial domain by assessing its challenges and prospects. It is unarguably agreed that effectiveness of economy of a nation largely depends on the commercial environment within which it operates. Unfair Competition is...

We propose a novel empirical strategy for detecting the potential effects of patent reforms on R&D investments. Our strategy builds on the insight that there is great variation in the extent to which firms rely on patents as an appropriation mechanism. Increases in patent protection should...

Much has been written, and much is understood, about how and why digital platforms regulate free expression on the Internet. Much less has been written— and even much less is understood—about how and why digital platforms regulate creative expression on the Internet—expression that makes...

A lack of interpretability limits the use of common unsupervised learning techniques (e.g., PCA, t-SNE) in contexts where they are meant to augment managerial decision-making. We develop a generative deep learning model based on a Variational AutoEncoder (“InnoVAE”) that converts...

The law of innovation balances private returns on investment against benefits to the public. Increasing intellectual property’s profitability acts as an inducement to spend money on research and testing, but threatens to increase costs to the public both directly and in terms of reduced...

For decades, companies and attorneys have instructed teams of engineers, researchers, and computer scientists to ignore patents. The reasoning for this advice: if there is no pre-suit knowledge of a patent, then it is nearly impossible for a patent holder to prove that enhanced damages are...