This paper assesses the importance of intellectual property (IP) protection for innovation in the context of a model of the industry dynamics in which business niches can be monopolized by the holders of valuable IP. Successfully developed innovations add to the stock of valuable IP but also detract from it by turning some older IP invaluable. IP may also turn invaluable as a result of imitatio...

Intellectual property (IP) block reuse is essential for facilitating the design process of System-on-a-Chip. Sharing IP blocks in such a competitive market poses significant high security risks. IPs can be read, copied or even partitioned to cover the authorship proof. Creators and owners of IP designs want assurance that their content will not be illegally redistributed by consumers. Consumers...

Globalization of intellectual property (IP) protection for medicines has been advancing during the past decade. Countries are obliged to adapt their legislation as a requirement of their membership to the World Trade Organization or as a condition of being part of international trade agreements. There is a growing recognition that, in low-income countries, stronger IP protection is a barrier to...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 426 I. THE IP PROTECTION OF TYPEFACE DESIGNS ...................... 430 A. Typeface Designs are Unprotected by IP, and Are Likely to Remain So ............................................................................ 432 B. Computer Fonts Are (Probably) Protected By Copyright ......... 437 C. The...

This paper analyzes the causes of illegal copying and its effects in the software market across 66 countries. By studying the aggregated and joint effects of different variables, the analysis shows that supply constraints in the software market, shortage of after-sale support, and characteristics legal framework are major drivers of illegal copying when controlling for income per capita. It als...

It has been argued that platform technology owners cocreate business value with other firms in their platform ecosystems by encouraging complementary invention and exploiting indirect network effects. In this study, we examine whether participation in an ecosystem partnership improves the business performance of small independent software vendors (ISVs) in the enterprise software industry and h...

As global societies are evolving to knowledge economies, intellectual property (IP) is becoming increasingly important. Contemporaneously, firms are opening up their innovation processes in contrast to the internally focused closed innovation paradigm, making IP of substantial relevance for firms as well as for societies. However, in spite of this relevance, existing literature about Open IP ap...

The continuing advance of semiconductor technology means that systems containing many millions of transistors can now be realised on single chips, often containing microprocessor cores. This System Level Integration (SLI) is changing the nature of the supply and demand for Intellectual Property (IP) in the electronics domain so much so that many commentators are now referring to IP as "the curr...