Royalties to be paid on animal patents

Why Royalties for Standard Essential Patents Should Not Be Set by the Courts

Although Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) generally require patent holders to agree to license their technologies on Reasonable and NonDiscriminatory (RAND), or Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND), terms as a condition of including their technologies in a standard, SSOs have generally declined to accept responsibility for clarifying the meaning of these commitments. Despite this...

Customersourcing: to Pay or be Paid

Customersourcing is a newly coined term representing the on-line version of an older practice, and a defining a sub-category of the now popular Crowdsourcing practice. This article starts with a brief overview of Crowdsourcing and its various subcategories such as Crowdfunding, and Crowdvoting. Further, the conceptual development of the Customersourcing Model is discussed in which a ‘community ...

Sports and Antitrust: Should College Students Be Paid to Play

Should at-risk patients be paid to receive interventions?

www.thelancet.com Vol 384 July 12, 2014 113 It is hard to think of a study that is more defi nitive, ostensibly valid, practical, or relevant to public health than that reported by Tim Weaver and colleagues in The Lancet. Their study addressed the global problem of how to reduce the spread of hepatitis B virus (HBV) by drug users, and in particular the practical problem of increasing full compl...

Yes, Managers Should Be Paid like Bureaucrats

Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulent accounts, cause considerable damage. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance is a major reason for these scandals. They cannot be overcome by improving variable pay for performance, as selfish extrinsic motivation is reinforced. Ba...