Intellectual Property

Gordon, Wendy J.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.413001

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Intellectual Property

Wendy J. Gordon

Boston University School of Law

As published in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LEGAL STUDIES, Peter Cane and Mark Tushnet, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 617-646, October 2003

Abstract:
This chapter for the OXFORD HANDBOOK ON LEGAL STUDIES provides an overview of the theoretical literature in Intellectual
Property, and suggests directions for further study. The emphasis is on economic analysis, but effort is made to embrace other perspectives as well.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 31

Keywords: intellectual property, copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, rights in industrial design, rights of publicity, database rights, rights against misappropriation, "intangible" as a unifying concept, intellectual property doctrines, IP doctrines, "intellectual" as a unifying concept, similitude among patterns in IP, normative basis of IP doctrines, Lockean theories in IP, fair use, cybersquatting, rights of publicity, economics of IP, monopoly analysis, game theory perspective in IP, comparative institutional competence, justice, desert, labor theory of property, gift, gratitude, price discrimination, monopoly, deadweight loss, legal categories, taxonomy, public domain

JEL Classification: K11, K33

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Date posted: June 6, 2003

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Gordon, Wendy J., Intellectual Property. As published in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LEGAL STUDIES, Peter Cane and Mark Tushnet, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 617-646, October 2003. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=413001 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.413001

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