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Intellectual Property

Peter S. Menell
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law

Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California - Department of Economics ; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy; School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell, Forthcoming
UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 741724

Abstract:
This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics (A.M. Polinsky & S. Shavell (eds.)) provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning literature on the law and economics of intellectual property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace (trademark protection and unfair competition law). Each section sets forth the economic problem, the principal models and analytical frameworks, application of economic analysis to particular structural and doctrinal issues, interactions with other legal regimes (such as competition policy), international dimensions, and comparative analysis of intellectual property protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and public enforcement in the case of trademarks).

Keywords: Intellectual Property, Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks

JEL Classifications: O34, L40, Z10

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Date posted: June 14, 2005 ; Last revised: August 17, 2005

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Menell, Peter S. and Scotchmer, Suzanne, Intellectual Property. HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell, Forthcoming; UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 741724. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=741424

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Peter S. Menell (Contact Author) University of California, Berkeley - School of Law ( email ) Boalt Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 United States
Suzanne Scotchmer University of California - Department of Economics ( email ) ( email ) Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 United States 510-643-8562 (Phone)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy ( email ) ( email ) Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 United States 510-643-8562 (Phone)
School of Law, University of California, Berkeley ( email ) Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 United States