Intellectual property licensing is becoming an increasingly important economic activity, and licensing practices pose ever more complex antitrust issues. This note discusses Richard Gilbert and Carl Shapiro’s paper on the subject. First, I consider which aspects of contractual penalty clauses -the subject of much of their paper -are most likely to cause welfare losses. Second, I explain why cer...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classifications: L26 O14 O16 O31 O33 O34 Keywords: Knowledge spillovers R&D intensity Entrepreneurship Intellectual property rights Copyright Legal formalism Knowledge spillovers are widely thought to be important for innovative activity, yet theory is ambiguous about the sign of the relationship. Assuming that knowledge spillovers are more easily exploited where intel...

Information theory and signal detection theory techniques were used to assess the validity of police reported traffic accident data. The validity criteria were the data and conclusions of muiti-disciplinary accident investigation teams who investigated the same traffic accidents. The results indicated that the accident level variables reported by the police with least reliability were vertical ...

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction of new goods whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our framework highlights a number of novel results. First, standardization is both an engine of growth and ...

s of the 1 MC-GARD Meeting, 3–5 May 2007: Saturday 5 May 124 O31 10.15 – 10.30 GENOME-WIDE MAP OF MOUSE DNA COPY NUMBER VARIANTS Peggy S. Eis; Timothy Graubert; Patrick Cahan; Deepa Edwin; Rebecca Selzer; Todd Richmond; William Shannon; Xia Li; Howard McLeod; James Cheverud; Timothy Ley. Array CGH Business Unit, NimbleGen Systems, Inc., USA E-mail: [email protected] Introduction. DNA copy numb...