How does patent enforcement affect subsequent innovation? I exploit patent infringement litigation in the United States to analyze the effect of patent enforcement on cumulative innovation. The results imply that subsequent innovation increase after a case is filed in a court. While there is a...

Defining a method for calculating the value of copyrights and related rights is crucial for the audiovisual works as well as the media industry in the climate of the new economy. It is a cross-disciplinary problem, as it reflects both legal aspects of streaming and business strategic management...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many paradoxes that raise complex law and policy questions with no satisfactory answers. Policymakers and commentators have already identified many contradictions, ironies and hard-to-reconcile positions at the intersection of international law and global...

While a robust body of scholarship considers the regulatory dimensions of patent and copyright, there remains a puzzling absence of writing about copyright’s administrative law. This Article remedies this lacuna in the literature. It begins by tracing the history of regulatory copyright, which...

This Chapter considers the long-standing debate over intellectual property and sustainable development in the context of the coronavirus public health crisis. It provides a historical overview of the past phases of the debate in relation to intellectual property and sustainable development.This...

The chapter focuses on the toolbox of trademark law to map the tensions between cultural heritage and intellectual property protection and to explore to what extent trademarks offer useful, albeit imperfect ways, to protect cultural heritage. The chapter then addresses the questions of whether...

Introduced in 2016, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code overhauled the Indian insolvency regime. Five years young, the work in progress Code is now in the process of adopting the Cross-Border insolvency, which was omitted from its original mandate. In 2018, a legislatively appointed committee...

Many countries have responded (or have considered responding) to the COVID pandemic by modifying their intellectual property laws to ensure the availability of vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and related information. Some have asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a waiver to excuse any...