We study a platformâs incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of holding the platform liable for the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability increases innovation by reducing the competitive pressure faced...

We examine the extent to which digital rights management (DRM) system impacts on mergers and acquisitions’ (M&A) due diligence. We use hand-collected data comprising the full dataset of digital M&A and patent M&A. To measure the performance of target firm at due diligence phase, we introduce...

Small and Medium Size Enterprise (SMEs), without any doubt, play an important role in the growth and development of a nation. As a matter of fact, ever since the outbreak of Covid-19, many countries around the world are now shifting their focus to the development of SMEs as the primary driver of...

To ensure free access to a patented innovation while protecting the patentee’s profit, I would like to propose new legislation of patents, in which the International Central Bank would supply the Intellectual Property Currency. The Currency would enhance innovations based on the concept of...

How should we allocate property rights in unowned tangible and intangible resources? This Article develops a model of original acquisition that draws together common law doctrines of first possession with original acquisition doctrines in patent, copyright, and trademark law. The common...

The paper explores the unique approaches to IP protection in the countries belonging to the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle/African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions; the limited extent to which legal and policy...

This paper charts the evolution and diversification of trade in knowledge that has taken place in the quarter-century since the WTO TRIPS Agreement came into force. Entirely new markets have come into being, potentially redefining the very character of 'trade'. The disruptive effect of digital...