1.
Four Free Speech Goals for Trademark Law
Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 18, 2008, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-09
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 10 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads
33,538
2.
Drugged Out: How Cognitive Bias Hurts Drug Innovation
51 San Diego Law Review 419 (2014)
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 01 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 09 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Downloads
11,303
3.
General Guidelines Concerning the Relation International Intellectual Property Business versus Human Rights and Civil Liberties
The Annals of the University of Oradea. Economic Sciences - Tom XXIII, 2014, 1st ISSUE / JULY 2014, pp. 49-56
Number of pages: 1150
Posted: 13 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
West University of Timisoara - Faculty of Law
Downloads
10,136
4.
Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 07 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
Downloads
8,972
5.
Is Disruptive Blockchain Technology the Future of Financial Services?
69 The Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 232 (2016)
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 31 May 2016
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
8,822
6.
Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap
Utah Law Review, Vol. 2007, p. 537, 2007, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2007-46, U of Utah Legal Studies Paper No. 08-20
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 25 Nov 2007
Last Revised: 05 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Southwestern Law School
Downloads
8,715
7.
Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story
2012 Wisconsin Law Review 891
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 04 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 04 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Rutgers Law School
Downloads
8,616
8.
Fundamentals of Intellectual Property: Cases & Materials
Number of pages: 472
Posted: 25 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
University of New Hampshire School of Law (formerly Franklin Pierce Law Center)
Downloads
8,026
9.
Fake News: A Legal Perspective
Journal of Internet Law (Apr. 2017)
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 26 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Klein Moynihan Turco LLP and Newsday Media Group
Downloads
7,789
10.
A Short Treatise on Fantasy Sports and the Law: How America Regulates its New National Pastime
Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, Vol. 3, January 2012
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 09 Aug 2011
Last Revised: 05 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
City University of New York - Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
Downloads
7,440
11.
Is Blockchain the Death of Antitrust Law? The Blockchain Antitrust Paradox
Georgetown Law Technology Review /
3 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 281 (2019)
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 25 Jun 2018
Last Revised: 16 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Downloads
6,772
12.
The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, March 2009, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 344, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 627, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-63
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 08 Jan 2009
Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
New York University School of Law and Harvard Law School
Downloads
6,762
13.
The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes
99 Cornell L. Rev. 387 (2014), Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 12-34
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 25 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law and Boston University - School of Law
Downloads
6,748
14.
How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared
Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-07, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-54
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 06 Jul 2013
Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads
6,675
15.
Collusion by Blockchain and Smart Contracts
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
(33 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 117)
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 25 Jan 2019
Last Revised: 12 Mar 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Downloads
6,442
16.
The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls
Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-45
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 19 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law, Boston University - School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls
Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-45
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 19 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 30 Sep 2012
Downloads
6,410
The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls
Regulation, Vol. 34, No. 4, p. 26, Winter 2011-2012
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 10 Jan 2012
Downloads
571
Downloads
6,410
17.
The Generative Internet
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, p. 1974, May 2006, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 28/2006, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006/1
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 13 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Downloads
6,332
18.
High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey
Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 255-327, 2009, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 04 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads
5,649
19.
User Patronage: The Return of the Gift in the 'Crowd Society'
(5) Michigan State Law Review 1983 (2015)
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 13 Sep 2015
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Queen's University Belfast - School of Law
Downloads
5,436
20.
War, Peace, or Stalemate: Wargames, Wardialing, Wardriving, and the Emerging Market for Hacker Ethics
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 06 Sep 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Berkeley Law
Downloads
5,366
21.
Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians’ Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives
55 Arizona Law Review 301 (2013), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-01
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 10 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 01 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Downloads
5,167
22.
Intellectual Property
HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell, Forthcoming, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 741724
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 14 Jun 2005
Accepted Paper Series
UC Berkeley School of Law and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
Downloads
5,119
23.
Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm
Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 2861574
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 31 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College, Boston University – Questrom School of Business and Tulane University
Downloads
4,869
24.
Virtual Currencies; Bitcoin & What Now after Liberty Reserve, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox?
Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2014
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 11 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
4,637
25.
Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author
Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 5, pp. 1-28 (Spring 2012)., U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-25
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 19 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Google
Downloads
4,575
26.
Open Innovation within Business Ecosystems: A Tale from Amazon.Com
Communications & Strategies, No. 74, p. 37, 2nd quarter 2009
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 27 Feb 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School and Telecom Business School
Downloads
4,531
27.
The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s
Arizona Law Review, Vol. 53, pp. 165-211, 2011, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-19
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 06 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
Downloads
4,351
28.
Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 07 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2013
Working Paper Series
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads
4,177
29.
Territoriality and Extraterritoriality in Intellectual Property Law
Günther Handl, Joachim Zekoll & Peer Zumbansen (eds), Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization, Queen Mary Studies in International Law, Brill Academic Publishing, Leiden/Boston, 2012, 189-228
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 19 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 10 Feb 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Law
Downloads
4,156
30.
A Generation of Software Patents
Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-31, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2011-04
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 21 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law
Downloads
4,090
31.
The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-09
Number of pages: 117
Posted: 10 Aug 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota Law School and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Downloads
4,070
32.
Be Careful What You Ask for: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 16 Apr 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Downloads
3,925
33.
What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, USPTO Economic Working Paper 2015-5
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 17 Dec 2015
Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Swedish House of Finance
There are 3 versions of this paper
What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent 'Lottery'
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, USPTO Economic Working Paper 2015-5
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 17 Dec 2015
Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
Downloads
3,862
The Bright Side of Patents
NBER Working Paper No. w21959
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 08 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Downloads
149
The Bright Side of Patents
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11091
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 17 Feb 2016
Downloads
1
Downloads
3,862
34.
Blockchain Demystified
Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 268/2017
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 21 Dec 2017
Last Revised: 05 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Computer Laboratory, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law - Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, School of Law - Centre for Commercial Law Studies and University of Cambridge -- Dept. Computer Science & Technology (Computer Laboratory)
Downloads
3,693
35.
From Pirates to Partners: Protecting Intellectual Property in China in the Twenty-First Century
American University Law Review, Vol. 50, pp. 131-243, 2000, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 34
Number of pages: 113
Posted: 07 Dec 2000
Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Accepted Paper Series
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads
3,512
36.
A Roadmap to the Smartphone Patent Wars and FRAND Licensing
CPI Antitrust Chronicle, Vol. 2, April 2012
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 04 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Rutgers Law School
Downloads
3,502
37.
The Future of Copyright
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 20 Apr 2005
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads
3,477
38.
Intellectual Property Rights and Foreign Direct Investment
Centre for International Economic Studies Working Paper No. 22
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 27 Jun 2000
Working Paper Series
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics
Downloads
3,332
39.
Web 2.0 and User-Generated Content: Legal Challenges in the New Frontier
Journal of Information, Law and Technology, Vol. 2, 2007
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 18 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Middlesex University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
3,310
40.
Evaluating Graduated Response
37 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 147-209 (2014), Monash University Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013/56
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 08 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Melbourne - Law School
Downloads
3,041
41.
WTO Waiver from Intellectual Property Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments: A Critical Review
62 Virginia Journal of International Law Online 9-32 (2021)
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 22 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 21 Jun 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law
Downloads
2,989
42.
Security Interests Over Intellectual Property
Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2011, Vol. 6, No. 2
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 03 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 21 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Nottingham, School of Law
Downloads
2,867
43.
The Private Costs of Patent Litigation
Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 07-08, 2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 02 May 2007
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law and Boston University - School of Law
Downloads
2,862
44.
E-Commerce, Cyber, and Electronic Payment System Risks: Lessons from PayPal
16 U.C. Davis Business Law Journal 261 (Spring 2016)
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 23 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads
2,818
45.
Copyrights and Creativity: Evidence from Italian Opera in the Napoleonic Age
Number of pages: 95
Posted: 06 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2020
Accepted Paper Series
University of California - Los Angeles and NYU Stern Department of Economics
Downloads
2,800
46.
The K-Pop Wave: An Economic Analysis
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 17 Jul 2013
Working Paper Series
Groupe d'Economie Mondiale at Sciences Po (GEM Paris) and
Downloads
2,800
47.
The 'Efficacy' of Indian Patent Law: Ironing out the Creases in Section 3(d)
Scripted, Vol. 5, No. 2, August 2008
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 22 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Nirma University - Institute of Law and Independent
Downloads
2,750
48.
The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Lighting a Dark Corner at the WTO
Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 5, p. 469, 2002
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Florida State University - College of Law
Downloads
2,688
49.
Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 09 Feb 2000
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law and Princeton University - Department of Economics
Downloads
2,654
50.
The Romance of the Public Domain
UC Davis Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 07 Jul 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
2,601
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