INtrODUctION Enterprises are facing challenges in protecting their intellectual property (IP) due to the rapid technological changes, shortened lifecycles, and the intangibility of products. The IP protection granted by the national intellectual property rights (IPRs) legislation does not correspond very well with the needs of enterprises operating in a rapidly changing business environment (An...

There are well-known circumstances under which unilateral refusals to license will cause harm to competition, that is, will lower consumer welfare. However, when the strategy is profitable, refusals to license also increase the returns to intellectual property, and thus limitations on them will reduce the incentives for firms to invest in innovation. The optimal balance between innovation incen...

The adoption of mobile services has achieved a spectacular growth in many countries around the world. However, regulators in these countries are finding that existing regulatory frameworks are not suitable for dealing with these services. This paper employs qualitative evidence to investigate how regulation can affect mobile services in the Australian mobile telecommunications industry and draw...

Undergraduate students are increasingly engaged in developing products, technologies, and services that are commercially viable through their involvement in courses and experiential programs focused on entrepreneurship and product design. Little is known about the degree to which these activities are creating protectable intellectual property (IP) or the degree to which student involvement in t...

The emergence of digital copyright in the internet era altered traditional method information dissemination and triggered a new revolution, which benefited owners by increasing revenue. However, as result efficiency convenience technical capture, data-based form faces challenges large number infringement acts has become barrier to development industry. Blockchain technology is decentralized, im...

To encourage continued investments in R&D to result in technological advancements in the field of microelectronics, protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) embedded in the layout designs is a very important issue. In Thailand, protection is provided for the layout design of integrated circuits through the Protection of Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act, B.E. 2543 (2000). The la...