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Intellectual Property Law
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From Patent Thickets to Patent Networks: The Legal Infrastructure of ...
Jurimetrics (2016)
Jonathan M Barnett
Scholarly and popular commentary often assert that markets characterized by intensive patent issuance and enforcement suffer from “patent thickets” that ...
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Hollywood Deals: Soft Contracts for Hard Markets
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2014)
Jonathan Barnett
Hollywood film studios, talent and other deal participants regularly commit to, and undertake production of, high-stakes film projects on the ...
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Copyright Without Creators
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2013)
Jonathan M Barnett
Copyright is typically justified by the rationale that profits induce authors and other artists to invest resources in cultural production. ...
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The Illusion of the Commons
Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2010)
Jonathan M. Barnett
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Property as Process: How Innovation Markets Select Innovation Regimes
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2011)
Jonathan M Barnett
It is commonly asserted that innovation markets suffer from excessive intellectualproperty protections, which in turn stifle output. But empirical inquiries ...
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Intermediaries Revisited: Is Efficient Certification Consistent with Profit Maximization?
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2011)
Jonathan M Barnett
Private certification mechanisms are a key component of the regulatory infrastructure in the financial sector and other commercial settings. It ...
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What's So Bad About Stealing?
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2011)
Jonathan M Barnett
The moral prohibition against theft, and legal causes of action against trespass and like activities, are usually stated in absolutist ...
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The Host's Dilemma: Strategic Forfeiture in Platform Markets for ...
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2010)
Jonathan M Barnett
Voluntary forfeiture of intellectual assets—often, exceptionally valuable assets--is surprisingly widespread in information technology markets. A simple economic rationale can account ...
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Intellectual Property as a Law of Organization
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2010)
Jonathan M Barnett
The incentive thesis for patents is challenged by the existence of alternative means by which firms can capture returns on ...
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Is Intellectual Property Trivial?
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2009)
Jonathan M Barnett
We typically assume that intellectual property makes a substantial difference in regulating access to intellectual goods and thereby provides incentives ...
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The Fashion Lottery: Cooperative Innovation in Stochastic Markets
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2008)
Jonathan Barnett, Gilles Grolleau and Sana El Harbi
The fashion market is an anomaly: innovation is vigorous but original producers are substantially unprotected against imitation, which proliferates under ...
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Certification Drag: The Opinion Puzzle and Other Transactional Curiosities
University of Southern California Law and Economics Working Paper Series (2007)
Jonathan Barnett
The law-and-economics literature typically depicts certification intermediaries, such as law firms, auditors, underwriters, investment banks and rating agencies, as socially ...
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