El presente documento realiza un estudio preliminar del capítulo XX relativo a propiedad intelectual del Acuerdo MERCOSUR – UE de libre comercio, MERCOSUR logró en este capítulo que la UE hiciera tabla rasa respecto de los anteriores acuerdos de libre comercio. Se arribó a un resultado...

We use exogenous variation in the strength of trade secrets protection to show that a relative weakening of patents (compared to trade secrets) has a disproportionately negative effect on the disclosure of processes - inventions that are not otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural...

The struggle for the dominance of competition is increasingly being transferred from physical to virtual arena, and therefore the application of new technologies is becoming an increasingly important basis for faster development, but it is becoming increasingly important weapon in the struggle...

This paper examines how labor mobility restrictions such as non-compete clauses in employment contracts affect the incentives and resulting behavior of employees. Using the investment industry as a testing laboratory, we find that mutual fund managers respond to heightened career concerns due to...

Does heightened employer-friendly trade secrecy protection help or hinder innovation? By examining U.S. state-level legal adoption of a doctrine allowing employers to curtail inventor mobility if the employee would "inevitably disclose" trade secrets, we investigate the impact of a shifting...

Robotics technology and the increasing sophistication of artificial intelligence are breakthrough innovations with significant growth prospects. They have the potential to disrupt existing socio-economic facets of everyday life. Yet few studies have analysed the development of robotics...

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate the complementary role of the two protection...

Professor Walter Bayer und Thomas Hoffmann (Universität Jena) haben untersucht, welche Unternehmen von der Pflicht zur CSR-Berichterstattung nach dem Gesetzesentwurf zur Umsetzung der europäischen CSR-Richtlinie erfasst wären: lediglich 536. Große nicht börsennotierte Unternehmen, die schon...

The paper investigates the optimal scope of trade secrets law. In the model, one innovative firm invests resources first to produce knowledge, and then to protect it from unwanted disclosure. A rival firm invests to ferret out this knowledge. Trade secrets law affects this "secrecy contest" by...

"In the increasingly knowledge- and innovation-based economy in which the mobility of the workforce is vital, employees and ex-employees are considered to be one of the biggest threats to the existence of trade secrets. The interests of the former parties to the employment relationship are...

This paper, using Japanese firm-level data, presents findings about innovative activities in the service sector and the role of patents and trade secrets on innovation. According to the analysis, first, service firms have fewer product innovations than do manufacturing firms, but the...

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...

In einer Gesellschaft, in der Transparenz von immer größerer Bedeutung ist, wird zunehmend auch von Versicherungsunternehmen umfassende Offenlegung verlangt. Das führt naturgemäß zu einem Konflikt mit ihren Geheimhaltungsinteressen, der vom Gesetz nicht gelöst wird. Beispielsweise ist das...

Israel’s compliance with International Organization of Securities Commissions’ objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation has been assessed. The regulatory regime is well developed and in most respects is comparable with that of major jurisdictions. For the most part, it is...

In article reviewed by need of creation of such structural element of ensuring economic safety at the enterprise, as division of competitive investigation.

В статье рассмотрена необходимость создания такого структурного элемента обеспечения экономической безопасности на предприятии, как подразделение...

Несмотря на то, что термин «ноу-хау» достаточно давно используется в деловом обороте, а сам объект как совокупность информации, имеющей коммерческую ценность,...

I study the incentives of Cournot duopolists to share their technologies with their competitor in markets where intellectual property rights are absent and imitation is costless. The trade-off between a signaling effect and an expropriation effect determines the technology-sharing incentives. In...