Intellectual Property and Patent Resources on the Internet

Intellectual property and patent resources on the Internet.

In theory, patents are simple. In exchange for the right to control the application and use of a new invention, an inventor must disclose the details of the invention to the public. Because of this disclosure, patent applications can contain important and timely information on technical innovations. Often, applications also contain useful technical information that has either been withheld or h...

Patent Pools: Intellectual Property Rights and Competition

Patent pools do not correct all problems associated with patent thickets. In this respect, patent pools might not stop the outsider problem from striking pools. Moreover, patent pools can be expensive to negotiate, can exclude patent holders with smaller numbers of patents or enable a group of major players to form a cartel that excludes new competitors. For all the above reasons, patent pools ...

A Comparative Study on Patent Attorney in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Intellectual property in internet software

The Internet is an iconoclastic system which has introduced exciting new concepts in commerce and communications, whilst upsetting a number of traditional principles, including principles associated with intellectual property law. Intellectual property is a term coined to describe to the collective set of exclusive rights which creators can obtain for their works. The rights are provided by pat...

Committee Jurisdiction and Internet Intellectual Property Protection

This paper examines the impact of increasingly common congressional committee jurisdictional turf wars on policy outcomes. It develops a theoretical model that shows how legislators balance the benefits of expanded committee jurisdiction against preferred policy outcomes, yielding predictions that are different from the traditional committee-dominance theories. The theory predicts that a) senio...