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