This article describes the processes involving the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO’s) implementation of administrative patent levers related to business methods. Administrative patent levers are conceptualized in this article as rules that represent a coordinated policy at...

This paper addresses the legitimacy of competing interests involved in the enforcement of covenants not to compete (“noncompetes”). To date, the courts and legislatures have not relied on a principled theoretical framework to identify and assess the competing interests between firms and...

This paper looks at organizational failures that appear rational to explain why firms do not coordinate intellectual property rights comprised of: utility patents, design rights, trade dress and trademarks

The competitive, market-based economy and adversarial legal system in the U.S. encourage strategic behavior and decision-making. This system often yields positive economic results. The system has a dark side, however, since strategic and unethical actors exploit the high costs of the legal...

Compliance law theory is incomplete and in a conceptually disconnected state. This article seeks to offer clarification to this seemingly disparate yet growing and vitally important area of legal practice and scholarship. A robust theory of compliance that seeks to better explain and predict...

This article contributes to the growing body of compliance law theory and scholarship. It does so by introducing a new and third approach to compliance called the fire alarm approach. This approach is grounded in the theoretical perspectives of negotiated governance and director primacy. It also...

This study follows a novel approach proposed by Angelico et al. (2022) using Twitter to measure inflation perception in Colombia in real time. By applying machine learning techniques, we implement two real-time indicators and show that both exhibit a dynamic similar to inflation and inflation...