Although the law often seeks to level the playing field, all too often the law has the opposite
effect and tilts the playing field in favor of some over others. Intellectual property law is no …

Intellectual property (IP) is a form of market entry and price regulation. The government
grants a favored party the legal right to exclude others from entering the market at all (in rare …

This chapter presents some foundational concepts and issues in intellectual property. We
begin by defining intellectual objects, which we contrast with physical objects or tangible …

This Article compares how IP licensing is scrutinized by antitrust regimes in the European
Union (EU) and the United States. The result of that comparison leads to the conclusion that …

As is very well known, intellectual property rights' throughout the world have recently
experienced a massive expansionist trend. 2 Patent law has slowly stretched the boundaries …

During recent decades, intellectual property (IP) protection has been expanded
continuously. 1 New technologies have been found to be eligible for patent protection. 2 …

The traditional understanding of intellectual property (IP) suggests that each IP category has
a discrete subject matter of its own and exceptions thereto. Based on such an understanding …

The history of modern intellectual property law commences in the late seventeenth century,
with the enactment of national laws that provided for the appropriation of immaterial goods …

This paper fills an important gap in intellectual property (IP) licensing literature, addressing
the differences between IP and IP rights as a serious blind spot in legal analysis. This paper …

In recent years, as Congress has created new intellectual property (IP) rights and courts
have often interpreted those rights broadly, legal scholars have frequently decried the …