Fair competition law and public health law talk past each other when discussing pharmaceutical pricing and distribution. The former cannot agree on the relevant definition of consumer welfare. The latter does not fully comprehend the highly complex but inherently collective nature of pharmaceutical drug acquisition in the United States. This essay proposes to inject public health discourse into...

Lawrence Lessig called the most recent battle ‘‘Hollywood v. Silicon Valley,’’1 but one could just as well dub it ‘‘Code v. The Common Law.’’ The content industries’ latest efforts to re-calibrate the balance of copyright2 imply that the United States copyright system has reached a crisis that cannot be resolved under existing law. In particular, bills such as the Consumer Broadband & Digital T...

Questions of similarity and dissimilarity are central to both the study and practice of intellectual property law. Trademark law’s basic consideration in determinations of infringement is consumer confusion. Similarity of marks is a basic measure of the likelihood of confusion and the concept of confusion itself – the misidentification of one object with another – is, in some ways, a very basic...

This article suggests that the Slutsky analysis should be extended so that quality is included in the consumer's utility function as a continuous variable. When quality is included in the consumer's utility function, the consumer is conceived to maximize his/her utility subject to his/her budget constraint by trading off quantity, quality, and price for various products in his market basket. Al...

Copyright is used to protect the rights of the consumers and the creators of the Intellectual Property (IP). The ease of creation, modification, distribution, compatibility and above all, a large market opportunity drive the creator and the consumer to move towards digitization to create and use their IP in digital form called Digital Intellectual Property (DIP). In India the existing copyright...

After 9/11, states looked at transportation as if it was a matter of paying taxes: "We cannot make it fun, but we can make it efficient." When traveling, we are asked to pass on data, give body samples, and pass through body scanners in the name of the general interest and in the name of our safety. Technology complements existing human checks and controls. Here we take a fresh look at the new ...

Accessing relevant legal information found in text excerpts from heterogeneous sources is essential to the decision making process in consumer disputes. The Ontology of Relevant Legal Information in Consumer Disputes (ric) is the domain-independent ontology modeling this relevant legal information comprising rights, their requisites, exceptions, constraints, enforcement procedures, legal source...