This Article is the first to elaborate a theory of decentralized intellectual property (De-IP) to explain the phenomenon of NFTs. This theory of De-IP provides a compelling new understanding of NFTs. Like the current movement to adopt decentralized finance (De-Fi), De-IP utilizes blockchain...

Unprecedented global health crisis caused by COVID 19 calls for an immediate response from countries to fight the pandemic and provide affordable medical care to its people by invoking provisions under patent laws. We understand patent laws as monopoly rights given to the patent holder for the...

The non-literal scope of protection for software is intricate legally and is intricate technical. Thus, despite literally decades of court decisions and a mountain of legal scholar written on the subject in that time, it appears that there is still no consistent agreement about it, as evidenced...

International clean technology diffusion is essential to mitigate and adapt to climate change, while fast and optimal diffusion can be prevented by the paywall of patents. This article explores the deficiency in clean technology diffusion caused by the legal fragmentation and rule complex of...

The Green route to Open Access (OA), meaning the re-publication in OA venues of previously published works, can essentially be executed by contract and by copyright law. In theory, rights retention and contracts may allow authors to re-publish and communicate their works to the public, by means...

As is typical of a Breyer opinion, Unicolors v. H&M—the only IP decision this Term—illuminates the distinction between mistakes of fact and of law and explains the reasoning by virtue of a brief hypothetical. Imagine someone (named John) who sees a flash of red in a tree and blurts out,...