Deven R. Desai

Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business

Associate Professor

800 West Peachtree St.

Atlanta, GA 30308

United States

http://scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/desai/index.html

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Patents, Meet Napster: 3D Printing and the Digitization of Things

102 Geo. L.J. 1691 (2014)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai and Gerard N. Magliocca
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
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Brands, Competition and the Law

Brigham Young University Law Review, 2010
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 01 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai and Spencer Weber Waller
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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Brands, Goodwill, Trademarks, Dilution, Confusion, Aftermarkets, Entry, Product Differentiation, Price Discrimination, Entry Barriers, Antitrust, Mergers, Market Definition, Market Power, Edward Chamberlin, Frank Schechter, Monopolistic Competition, Vertical Restraints, Resale Price Maintenance

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A Brand Theory of Trademark Law

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A Brand Theory of Trademark Law

Florida Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 4, p. 981, 2012
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 06 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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Trademark, Brands, Confusion, Law and Economics, Marketing

From Trademarks to Brands

Florida Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 4, p. 981, 2012
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 28 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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brands, trademarks, information, search costs, co-creation of value, brand strategy, marketing

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Trust But Verify: A Guide to Algorithms and the Law

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2018
Deven R. Desai and Joshua A. Kroll
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Naval Postgraduate School
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algorithms, governance, accountability, internet, cyber, technology, bias, discrimination, computational methods, law, big data, computer science, code, transparency, machine learning

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Copyright's Hidden Assumption: A Critical Analysis of the Foundations of Descendible Copyright

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Copyright's Hidden Assumption: A Critical Analysis of the Foundations of Descendible Copyright

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 2, p. 219, 2011
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 27 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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Copyright, Legal History, Victor Hugo, Infrastructure, Inheritance, Heirs, Eldred, CTEA, Extension, Copyright Term, Public Domain

The Life and Death of Copyright

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 2, p. 219, 2011
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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copyright, inheritance, property, copyright history, intellectual property, public domain, Victor Hugo, Berne Convention, Inheritance, Heirs, Eldred, CTEA, Extension, Copyright Term

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Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: A Proposal for a Layered Approach to Regulating Private Military Companies

University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 4, p. 825, 2005
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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contract, private military, legislation, Abu Grahib, mercenary, regulation, international law, privatization, torture

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The New Steam: On Digitization, Decentralization, and Disruption

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 65, No. 6, 2014
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Oct 2014
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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digitization, industrial revolution, intellectual property, innovation, disruption, copyright, patent, trademark

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Confronting the Genericism Conundrum

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, p. 1789, 2007
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 03 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai and Sandra L. Rierson
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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trademark, intellectual property, expression, linguistics, competition

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Beyond Location: Data Security in the 21st Century

Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56, January 2013
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 24 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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data security, privacy, Data Protection Directive, General Data Protection Regulation, cloud computing, data breach, jurisdiction, distributed computing, computer science

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Property, Persona, and Preservation

Temple Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, p. 67, 2008
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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copyright, attention economics, email, digital property, inheritance, spillovers, access to knowledge, preservation

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Brands, Competition Law and IP

Cambridge University Press (2015) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Mar 2015
Deven R. Desai, Ioannis Lianos and Spencer Weber Waller
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, University College London - Faculty of Laws and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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antitrust, trademarks, competition, brands, branding, price theory

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Constitutional Limits on Surveillance: Associational Freedom in the Age of Data Hoarding

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, p. 579, 2014
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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Fourth Amendment, Prism, NSA, First Amendment, surveillance, privacy, data, data hoard

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Individual Branding: How the Rise of Individual Creation and Distribution of Cultural Products Confuses the Intellectual Property System

CREATIVITY, LAW, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, Shubha Ghosh and Robin Malloy, eds., Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Feb 2020
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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attention, reputation, attribution, branding, Wealth of Networks, Netflix, social production

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Exploration and Exploitation: An Essay on (Machine) Learning, Algorithms, and Information Provision

47 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 541 (2015)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2016
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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machine learnng, filter bubble, exploration, exploitation, competition, net neutrality, information cascades, herding, information provision, search, social media, competition, news, media, echo chamber

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Property, Persona, and Publicity

TJSL Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1008541
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 31 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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copyright, trademark, right of publicity, intellectual property, persona, property, duration, spillover

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Speech, Citizenry, and the Market: A Corporate Public Figure Doctrine

98 Minnesota Law Review 455 (2013)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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Citizens United, Times v. Sullivan, First Amendment, public figure, trademark law, dilution, corporate reputation, free speech

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The Competitive Significance of Brands

CPI Antitrust Chronicle, July 2014 (2)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2015
Deven R. Desai and Spencer Weber Waller
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
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antitrust, trademarks, competition, brands, branding, price theory

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An Information Approach to Trademarks

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 100, No. 6, (2012)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 31 Aug 2012
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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trademarks, brands, competition, information theory, Claude Shannon

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The Chicago School Trap in Trademark: The Co-Evolution of Corporate, Antitrust, and Trademark Law

37 Cardozo Law Review, 551 (2015)
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 27 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2016
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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Brands, Goodwill, Trademarks, Chicago School, classical economics, neoclassical economics, search costs, information and trademarks, antitrust, theory of the firm

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Privacy? Property?: Reflections on the Implications of a Post-Human World

Kansas Journal of Law & Pubic Policy, Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 174, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Nov 2011
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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singularity, privacy, property, persona, genetics

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Bounded by Brands: An Information Network Approach to Trademarks

47 UC Davis Law Review, 821 (2014)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2016
Deven R. Desai
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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trademarks, brands, bounded rationality, networks, information, search costs, cascades, herds, advertising, online advertising, competition, information theory