This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent Law Under Uncertainty (Cambridge U. Press 2009 forthcoming). In addition to introducing all of the papers in the volume, this essay introduces the organizing themes of the...

This comment was submitted by 19 scholars of law, economics, and business who work in areas related to intellectual property, antitrust, strategy, and innovation in response to the December 6, 2021, USPTO, NIST, and DOJ draft policy statement on remedies for the infringement of...

Property rights are an essential economic institution. As the great UCLA economist Harold Demsetz famously argued, property rights spur specialization, investment, and competition, which in turn increase productivity, innovation, and wealth throughout the economy.The same holds true for...