Intellectual Property Law

Economic research shows that small businesses are the primary driver of job creation in the United States. Yet, the capacity of American small busi...

Congress has shown significant interest in altering the current patent system in response to concerns about entities that engage in patent litigati...

Coalitions and Compliance examines how international changes can reconfigure domestic politics. Since the late 1980s, developing countries have bee...

Beginning with a discussion of current international intellectual property institutions and ending with a study of contemporary border enforcement ...

Forty years after the first discussions began with a view to creating a single European patent, 25 EU Member States (with the exception of Italy, S...

On 17 December 2012, following a complex negotiation which lasted 12 years, the European Parliament adopted Regulations (EU) 1257/2012 and 1260/201...

The supplementary protection certificate (SPC) prolongs the term of patents for pharmaceutical products for a maximum of five additional years. The...

The book should be required reading for budding inventors. Andrew Baker, Partner, GBS Venture Partners. I wish I had read this book before I enga...

In recent years, the number of conflicts related to the misuse of street art and graffiti has been on the rise around the world. Some cases involve...

For more than two hundred years, copyright in the United States has rested on a simple premise: more copyright will lead to more money for copyrigh...

Copyright law was once an esoteric backwater, the special province of professional authors, publishers, and media companies. This is no longer the ...

These essays by Petra Christine Hardt, head of the rights department at esteemed German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, offer unique and informed insigh...