Search Results - subject:"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS"

Patent Trolls and their Excesses : Blackbird Tech v. Cloudflare

Bonadio, Enrico; Contardi, Magali - 2022

Patent trolls have been around for at least two decades, especially in the US. Their business model is well-known. They acquire patents in the market without any intention to work the underlying invention by producing and/or selling products. They then approach other firms which are merely...

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Patents and Trade Secrets

Bently, Lionel A. F.; Aplin, Tanya - 2022

This paper discusses the overlap and interaction between patents and trade secrets in the United Kingdom, with relevant comparisons to United States law. It considers the use of trade secrets protection as an alternative or complement to patent protection

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Trading Innovation : An Analysis of Innovations in Intellectual Property Monetisation

Onwuama, Chimezie - 2022

property rights as highly valuable business assets. Intellectual property refers to the bundle of legal and equitable rights … property rights in order to facilitate the efficient monetization of IP portfolios. This study is premised upon the view that … mechanisms of copyright, patents, trademarks, industrial designs, and related rights has led to the acceptance of Intellectual …

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The Internet of Things (You Don’t Own) under Bourgeois Law : An Integrated Tactic to Rebalance Intellectual Property

Noto La Diega, Guido - 2022

This chapter will present the main intellectual property (IP) issues in the Internet of Things (IoT) and concentrate on one of them, that has been framed as ‘death of ownership’ by Joshua Fairfield in Owned, a seminal book that will provide an initial framework to understand this issue....

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The History of the ETSI IPR Policy : Using the Historical Record to Inform Application of the ETSI FRAND Obligation

Pocknell, Robert; Djavaherian, Dave - 2022

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is responsible for developing and promulgating modern cellular standards such as LTE and 5G. These mainstream cellular standards are expanding throughout the economy, particularly with the adoption and growth of new cellular standards...

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Patent Trolls and Capital Structure Decisions in High-Tech Firms

Duan, Ran - 2022

Under the growing threat of patent trolls, high-tech firms face substantial legal fees, increased cash flow volatility, and greater expected costs of distress. I show that the exposure to patent litigation leads to overly conservative capital structures in high-tech firms. My identification...

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Regulating Digital Piracy Consumption

Chen, Jieteng; Gao, Yuetao; Ke, T. Tony - 2022

Regulators across the globe have imposed penalties on consumers for digital piracy consumption. Contrary to expectations, however, digital piracy consumption has continued to grow since the inception of these regulations. We develop a simple model of competition between a copyright holder and a...

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Guardians of Intellectual Property in the 21st Century : The Global Supply Chain Industry

Carnovale, Steven; Carnovale, Jessica; Strub, Doug; … - 2022

The length and complexity, the number of geographically distributed firms, as well as the number of products that modern supply chains are tasked with delivering to consumers have grown exponentially over the past several decades. Regional supply chains have transformed into global ones with...

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Does intellectual property protection stimulate digital economy development?

Chen, Wen; Wu, Ying - 2022

The digital economy plays an important role in society and the economy. However, we know little about what factors affect the development of the digital economy. Using a self-developed index for measuring Chinese provincial-level digital economy development, this paper examines the impact of...

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Innovativeness and export competitiveness in the East African Community

Olyanga, Anthony Moni; Shinyekwa, Isaac M. B.; Ngoma, … - In: Modern supply chain research and applications 4 (2022) 3, pp. 177-201

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of innovation indicators: Internet usage, patent rights, innovation in exporting countries and innovation in the importing country on the export competitiveness of firms in the East African Community (EAC). Design/methodology/approach...

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