Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law: Vol 1: Theory and Vol 2: Analytical Methods

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Both law and economics and intellectual property law have expanded dramatically in tandem over recent decades. This field-defining two-volume Handbook, featuring the leading legal, empirical, and law and economics scholars studying intellectual property rights, provides wide-ranging and in-depth analysis both of the economic theory underpinning intellectual property law, and the use of analytical methods to study it. Front Matter Copyright Contents List of contributors Part I: Intellectual Property as Property 1 Intellectual property as property 2 Anticommons, transaction costs, and patent aggregators 3 Governing intellectual property Part II: IP and Incentives 4 Philosophical foundations of IP law: the law and economics paradigm 5 Intellectual property law and the promotion of welfare 6 Economic models of innovation: stand-alone and cumulative creativity 7 Economic analysis of network effects and intellectual property 8 Intellectual property and competition 9 Intellectual property and the economics of product differentiation 10 Price discrimination and intellectual property 11 When are IP rights necessary? Evidence from innovation in IP’s 12 Open innovation and ex ante licensing 13 Prize and reward alternatives to intellectual property Part III: IP Costs 14 Tailoring intellectual property rights to reduce uniformity cost 15 Intellectual property enforcement costs 16 Economic analysis of intellectual property notice and disclosure Part IV: IP and Institutions 17 Patent institutions: shifting interactions between legal actors 18 The economics of collective management 19 ‘The common law’ in the law and economics of intellectual property 20 In the shadow of the law: the role of custom in intellectual property 21 Infrastructure theory and IP Part V: IP, Development, and International Trade 22 Creative development: copyright and emerging creative industries 23 Intellectual property and economic development: a guide for scholarly and policy research 24 Economic development and intellectual property rights: key analytical results from economics Index RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW VOLUME 2 Copyright Contents List of contributors Part I: Empirical Methods 1 Data sources on patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property Part II: Empirical Studies Relating to Patents Section A Metrics 2 Patent citation data in social science research: overview and best practices 3 Patent value Section B Patent Institutions and Litigation 4 Empirical scholarship on the prosecution process at the USPTO 5 The USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board 6 The Federal Circuit as an institution 7 Empirical studies of claim construction 8 Empirical studies of the International Trade Commission 9 Technical standards, standards-setting organizations, and intellectual property: a survey of the literature (with an emphasis on empirical approaches) 10 Empirical studies of patent pools 11 Empirical analyses related to university patenting Part III: Patent Law Doctrines 12 Empirical studies in patentability 13 Patent duration 14 Infringement 15 Presumption of validity 16 Inequitable conduct and patent misuse 17 Remedies Part IV: Technology-Specific Studies 18 Patent rights and innovation: evidence from the semiconductor industry 19 Patent trolls 20 Patents and innovation in economic history 21 The political economy of intellectual property reforms Part V: Empirical Studies Relating to Copyright 22 Empirical studies of copyright litigation 23 Empirical studies of copyright registration 24 Copyright and technological change in music, movies, and books 25 Music copyright 26 Experiments in intellectual property 27 The effect of copyright law on access to works Part VI: Empirical Studies of Trademark Law 28 Empirical studies of trademark law Part VII: Empirical Methods in Trade Secret Research 29 Empirical methods in trade secret research Part VIII: Knowledge Commons 30 Knowledge commons Index