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The Economics of Intellectual Property.
2002
F 191 TOW.E
Available at WIPO Library
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Title
The Economics of Intellectual Property.
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Description
4 volumes ; 2440 pages ; illustrations ; 26 cm.
ISBN
9781840643510 Print
Alternate Call Number
F 191 TOW.E
Summary
This authoritative four-volume collection presents the most important published articles and papers on the economics of intellectual property – a subject that is of increasing interest to both economists and lawyers. Publication is timely in view of the growing interest in the relationship of innovation and knowledge to economic growth as well as the challenges to copyright being posed by the new electronic media. International in scope, this four-volume set will be an essential source of reference to both economists and lawyers concerned with the rapidly developing field of intellectual property.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Volume I: Introduction and Copyright
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Introduction To The Economics Of Intellectual Property
1. Intellectual Property; 2. Economic Incentives in Markets for Information and Innovation; 3. Intellectual Property: A Non-Posnerian Law and Economics Approach; 4. Of Property Rules, Coase, and Intellectual Property; 5. The Welfare Implications of Unauthorized Reproduction of Intellectual Property in the Presence of Demand Network Externalities
Part II: Copyright
6. The Economics of Copyright: An Historical Perspective; 7. Copyright; 8. Copyright; 9. The Economic Aspects of Copyright in Books; 10. The Effects of Increased Copyright Protection: An Analytic Approach; 11. The Economics of Copying; 12. An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law; 13. The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Study of Copyright in Books, Photocopies, and Computer Programs
Part III: Applications to Specific Areas of Copyright
14. Fair Use as Market Failure: A Structural and Economic Analysis of the Betamax Case and its Predecessors; 15. An Economic Understanding of Copyright Law’s Work-Made-for-Hire Doctrine; 16. Copying and Indirect Appropriability: Photocopying of Journals; 17. Copyright Liability for Cable Television: Compulsory Licensing and the Coase Theorem
Part IV: Administration of Copyright
18. Implementing Performing Rights; 19. Copyright and Economic Incentives: An Application to Performers’ Rights in the Music Industry
Part V: Droit De Suite
20. Droit de Suite; 21. An Economic Analysis of the Droit de Suite; 22. Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis
Name Index
Volume II: Patents
Acknowledgements
An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: The Nature of Patents and the Patent System
1. Patents; 2. The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century; 3. The Economic Theory Concerning Patents for Inventions; 4. The Nature and Function of the Patent System; 5. Patents: Monopolies or Property Rights?; 6. The Economic Underpinnings of Patent Law; 7. An Economic Review of the Patent System: Study of the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary; 8. The Incentives to Innovate under Alternative Property Rights Assignments with Special Reference to the Patent System; 9. Patents as an Incentive System; 10. Optimal Timing of Innovations; 11. The Timing of Innovation: Research, Development, and Diffusion; 12. The Economic Effects of Compulsory Patent Licensing; 13. Optimal Patents with Compulsory Licensing; 14. How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property: The Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data
Part II: Patent Scope and Duration
15. The Scope and Duration of the Patent Right and the Nature of Research Rivalry; 16. Comment: Does Competitive Dissipation Require a Short Patent Life?; 17. The Optimal Patent Term under Uncertainty; 18. Optimal Patent Length and Breadth; 19. On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope; 20. How Broad Should the Scope of Patent Protection Be?; 21. The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis; 22. Technology Adoption, Learning Spillovers, and the Optimal Duration of Patent-based Monopolies
Name Index
Volume III: Empirical Evidence, Trade Secrets and Trademarks
Acknowledgements
An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: Empirical Evidence on Patents
1. Imitation Costs and Patents: An Empirical Study; 2. R & D and Innovation: Some Empirical Findings’ and ‘Reply; 3. Patents and Innovation: An Empirical Study; 4. A New Look at the Patent System; 5. The Influence of the Patent System on the Readiness of Industry to Invest - An Empirical Analysis; 6. Technological Opportunity and Spillovers of R & D: Evidence from Firms’ Patents, Profits and Market Value; 7. An Empirical Study of the Twenty-year Patent Term; 8. Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms
Part II: Trade Secrets
9. Trade Secret; 10. The Law and Economics of Rights in Valuable Information; 11. Property Rights in Trade Secrets; 12. Some Economics of Trade Secret Law; 13. Intellectual Property Institutions and the Panda’s Thumb: Patents, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets in Economic Theory and History
Part III: Trademarks
14. Trademarks; 15. The Economic Effect of Trademarks; 16. The Economics of Trademarks; 17. The Economics of Trademark Law; 18. Why Are Some Products Branded and Others Not?; 19. The Trouble with Trademark; 20. Jenever and Jumping Wild Cats: The Scope of Trade Mark Protection in Economics and in Law; 21. Trademarks, Market Power, and Information; 22. Persuasion or Information? Promotion and the Shares of Brand Name and Generic Pharmaceuticals; 23. Trademark Rights at a Discount – Is Trademark Law Still Effective?
Name Index
Volume IV: Competition and International Trade
Acknowledgements
An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: Competition Issues – General
1. The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation; 2. Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy: A Framework for the Analysis of Economic and Legal Issues; 3. Private Property and the Public Domain: The Case of Antitrust; 4. EEC Competition Policy – Legal Form or Economic Efficiency?; 5. Cooperative Agreements in R&D and European Antitrust Policy; 6. Inter-Firm Co-operation, Competition Law, and Patent Licensing: A US-EC Comparison; 7. The Law and Economics of Tying Arrangements: Lessons for the Competition Policy Treatment of Intellectual Property; 8. Intellectual Property and the Essential Facilities Doctrine
Part II: Parallel Imports
9. Intellectual Property Rights and Parallel Imports; 10. Trademark Law, Economics and Grey-market Policy; 11. The Gray Market Case: Trademark Rights v. Consumer Interests; 12. Free Trading or Free-riding: An Examination of the Theories and Available Empirical Evidence on Gray Market Imports; 13. First Report (Final) to the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association on the Subject of Parallel Importation; 14. Executive Summary; 15. The Economics of Parallel Trade; 16. The Conflicts Between Parallel Trade and Product Access and Innovation: The Case of Pharmaceuticals
Part III: WTO/TRIPS
17. You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Lessons from the Paris Convention Revision Exercise; 18. The Economics of Intellectual Property Rights and the GATT: A View From the South; 19. The Interface Between Competition Policy and Intellectual Property in the Context of the International Trading System; 20. From Free Riders to Fair Followers: Global Competition Under the TRIPS Agreement
Part IV: Standardisation Issues
21. Technical Change, Barriers to Entry, and Market Structure; 22. Standardization and Intellectual Property
Name Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Introduction To The Economics Of Intellectual Property
1. Intellectual Property; 2. Economic Incentives in Markets for Information and Innovation; 3. Intellectual Property: A Non-Posnerian Law and Economics Approach; 4. Of Property Rules, Coase, and Intellectual Property; 5. The Welfare Implications of Unauthorized Reproduction of Intellectual Property in the Presence of Demand Network Externalities
Part II: Copyright
6. The Economics of Copyright: An Historical Perspective; 7. Copyright; 8. Copyright; 9. The Economic Aspects of Copyright in Books; 10. The Effects of Increased Copyright Protection: An Analytic Approach; 11. The Economics of Copying; 12. An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law; 13. The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Study of Copyright in Books, Photocopies, and Computer Programs
Part III: Applications to Specific Areas of Copyright
14. Fair Use as Market Failure: A Structural and Economic Analysis of the Betamax Case and its Predecessors; 15. An Economic Understanding of Copyright Law’s Work-Made-for-Hire Doctrine; 16. Copying and Indirect Appropriability: Photocopying of Journals; 17. Copyright Liability for Cable Television: Compulsory Licensing and the Coase Theorem
Part IV: Administration of Copyright
18. Implementing Performing Rights; 19. Copyright and Economic Incentives: An Application to Performers’ Rights in the Music Industry
Part V: Droit De Suite
20. Droit de Suite; 21. An Economic Analysis of the Droit de Suite; 22. Authors’ and Artists’ Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis
Name Index
Volume II: Patents
Acknowledgements
An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: The Nature of Patents and the Patent System
1. Patents; 2. The Patent Controversy in the Nineteenth Century; 3. The Economic Theory Concerning Patents for Inventions; 4. The Nature and Function of the Patent System; 5. Patents: Monopolies or Property Rights?; 6. The Economic Underpinnings of Patent Law; 7. An Economic Review of the Patent System: Study of the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary; 8. The Incentives to Innovate under Alternative Property Rights Assignments with Special Reference to the Patent System; 9. Patents as an Incentive System; 10. Optimal Timing of Innovations; 11. The Timing of Innovation: Research, Development, and Diffusion; 12. The Economic Effects of Compulsory Patent Licensing; 13. Optimal Patents with Compulsory Licensing; 14. How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property: The Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data
Part II: Patent Scope and Duration
15. The Scope and Duration of the Patent Right and the Nature of Research Rivalry; 16. Comment: Does Competitive Dissipation Require a Short Patent Life?; 17. The Optimal Patent Term under Uncertainty; 18. Optimal Patent Length and Breadth; 19. On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope; 20. How Broad Should the Scope of Patent Protection Be?; 21. The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis; 22. Technology Adoption, Learning Spillovers, and the Optimal Duration of Patent-based Monopolies
Name Index
Volume III: Empirical Evidence, Trade Secrets and Trademarks
Acknowledgements
An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: Empirical Evidence on Patents
1. Imitation Costs and Patents: An Empirical Study; 2. R & D and Innovation: Some Empirical Findings’ and ‘Reply; 3. Patents and Innovation: An Empirical Study; 4. A New Look at the Patent System; 5. The Influence of the Patent System on the Readiness of Industry to Invest - An Empirical Analysis; 6. Technological Opportunity and Spillovers of R & D: Evidence from Firms’ Patents, Profits and Market Value; 7. An Empirical Study of the Twenty-year Patent Term; 8. Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms
Part II: Trade Secrets
9. Trade Secret; 10. The Law and Economics of Rights in Valuable Information; 11. Property Rights in Trade Secrets; 12. Some Economics of Trade Secret Law; 13. Intellectual Property Institutions and the Panda’s Thumb: Patents, Copyrights, and Trade Secrets in Economic Theory and History
Part III: Trademarks
14. Trademarks; 15. The Economic Effect of Trademarks; 16. The Economics of Trademarks; 17. The Economics of Trademark Law; 18. Why Are Some Products Branded and Others Not?; 19. The Trouble with Trademark; 20. Jenever and Jumping Wild Cats: The Scope of Trade Mark Protection in Economics and in Law; 21. Trademarks, Market Power, and Information; 22. Persuasion or Information? Promotion and the Shares of Brand Name and Generic Pharmaceuticals; 23. Trademark Rights at a Discount – Is Trademark Law Still Effective?
Name Index
Volume IV: Competition and International Trade
Acknowledgements
An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I
Part I: Competition Issues – General
1. The Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation; 2. Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy: A Framework for the Analysis of Economic and Legal Issues; 3. Private Property and the Public Domain: The Case of Antitrust; 4. EEC Competition Policy – Legal Form or Economic Efficiency?; 5. Cooperative Agreements in R&D and European Antitrust Policy; 6. Inter-Firm Co-operation, Competition Law, and Patent Licensing: A US-EC Comparison; 7. The Law and Economics of Tying Arrangements: Lessons for the Competition Policy Treatment of Intellectual Property; 8. Intellectual Property and the Essential Facilities Doctrine
Part II: Parallel Imports
9. Intellectual Property Rights and Parallel Imports; 10. Trademark Law, Economics and Grey-market Policy; 11. The Gray Market Case: Trademark Rights v. Consumer Interests; 12. Free Trading or Free-riding: An Examination of the Theories and Available Empirical Evidence on Gray Market Imports; 13. First Report (Final) to the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association on the Subject of Parallel Importation; 14. Executive Summary; 15. The Economics of Parallel Trade; 16. The Conflicts Between Parallel Trade and Product Access and Innovation: The Case of Pharmaceuticals
Part III: WTO/TRIPS
17. You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Lessons from the Paris Convention Revision Exercise; 18. The Economics of Intellectual Property Rights and the GATT: A View From the South; 19. The Interface Between Competition Policy and Intellectual Property in the Context of the International Trading System; 20. From Free Riders to Fair Followers: Global Competition Under the TRIPS Agreement
Part IV: Standardisation Issues
21. Technical Change, Barriers to Entry, and Market Structure; 22. Standardization and Intellectual Property
Name Index
Published
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Pub., 2002.
Language
English
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