.................................................... 1 1. Botching a Delicate Balance ....................................................................................................... 2 2. Unilateral Responses to the Intellectual Anti-Commons............................................................. 3 3. Government and Industry-Led Collective Approaches to Solving the Anti-Commons .......

At the heart of the Goldreich–Levin theorem is the problem of determining an n-bit string a by making queries to two oracles, referred to as IP (inner product) and EQ (equivalence). The IP oracle, on input x, returns a bit that is biased towards a · x (the modulo two inner product of a with x) in the following sense. For a random x, the probability that IP(x)= a ·x is at least 2 (1+ ε). The EQ ...

As a typical Information Centric Networking, Named Data Networking (NDN) has attracted wide research attentions in recent years. NDN evolves today’s host-centric network architecture TCP/IP to a data-centric network architecture. It turns the end-to-end connection-oriented transport of TCP/IP into receiver-driven connectionless transport. Compared with the traditional TCP/IP networking, the tra...

This paper addresses the problem of designing a capacity management/traffic engineering procedure for an IP/MPLS over ASON/GMPLS scenario. We suggest TRIDENT, a procedure whose main goal is to dynamically provide the bandwidth required to transport through an ASON the MPLS–LSPs already established at the IP/MPLS client network. TRIDENT relies on automatically triggering demands to set up or tea...

Internet Protocol (IP) based communication is fast becoming a viable alternative for voice communications. The Intelligent Network (IN) represents the world wide accepted basis for the uniform provision of advanced telecom services. Mobile Agents offer unique opportunities for structuring and implementing open distributed service architectures, facilitated by the dynamic downloading and movemen...

Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to a...

A retail franchisor needs growth capital so that the brand continues to grow and franchisor–franchisee relations remain strong. However, access to corporate liquidity to fund such franchise growth options is not unlimited. A method of raising finance particularly suited to retail franchisors is intellectual property (IP) securitization that allows companies to account for intangible assets such...

Privacy is an ability to understand, choose, and regulate what personal data one shares, with whom, for how long and under what context. Data owners must not lose the rights of ownership, once the data is shared. Privacy decisions have many components that include identity, access granularity, time and context. We propose an ontology based model for data privacy configuration in terms of produc...

While external pressure to change intellectual property (IP) regimes has abated, India faces other challenges not just as a net user/importer but as net creator—actual and potential—of IP. This paper outlines the responses to the four challenges that lie ahead. First, India should consider revising its draft IP legislation so that TRIPs obligations can serve as a mechanism for enforcing its mar...