I often review academic and policy articles on IPcentral. To make these writings more accessible to readers, I started categorizing them in Academia. Many earlier article reviews can still be found under their substantive categories (such as DMCA or Patents);I will go back and re-tag those posts (at some point).

Below the fold, kindly find recent article reviews I've drafted between Nov-Dec '06.

>>The Global Innovation Chain and IP. On The Aberdeen Group, The Protecting Product IP Benchmark Report: Safeguarding Design Intellectual Property in a Global Market- firm level practices in safeguarding IP in intl development.
>>Uncertainty in the Patent System. On Alan Marco, The Value of Certainty in Intellectual Property Rights: Stock Market Reactions to Patent Litigation, available at SSRN(November 15, 2005) - how certainty surrounding the validity of a patent correlates with the value of the patent grant itself.
>>Patents in the Direction and Landscape of Innovation. On Petra Moser, How do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? American Econ Review, Vol. 95, No. 4, (September 2005)- how patents enable structural development of industries.
>>The Wealth of Networks, Too Premature. On Lior Strahilevitz, Wealth without Markets? U Chicago Law & Econ, Olin Working Paper No. 315 (2007)- limitations to Yochai Benkler’s theory of social production.
>>Straightening Out DMCA-DRM Issues. On Tim Lee, Why Zune Won’t Play for Sure, Microsoft's New Music Player Shows That We Need To Reform The DMCA (2006)- addressing business, legal and technical misconceptions often communicated with in the think tank community concerning the DMCA.
>>Can We Get to "Today's" Patent Debate? On Robert Merges, Software Firms and Patent Scope Doctrines (conference presentation 2006)- discourse in patent policy should get past the “patentability of software” debate and focus more productively on ironing out the contours of patents in the technology industry.
>>Patents and R&D Incentives in the Software Industry. On Michael Noel and Mark Schankerman, Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5701 (May 2006)- how patenting in the software industry affects R&D decision making.
>>Patenting by the Business Model, Firm Maturity and Innovation Theory. On John Allison, Abe Dunn and Ronald Mann, Software Patents, Incumbents, and Entry (conference transcript 2006)- influences that differentiate software patenting activity.
>>Patents and the Path of Technological Knowledge. On Kurt A. Hafner, Univ of Bamberg, Germany. International Patent Pattern and Technology Diffusion, available at IDEAS RECPEC (August 2005)- patents and how the international flow of technological knowledge affect R&D.
>>Just Patent It, You'll Feel Better. On Andrew Toole and Dirk Czarnitzki, Patent Protection, Market Uncertainty, and R&D Investment, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Scholarship. (September 2006)- how patents sustain R&D activity during times of economic uncertainty.
>>Careful When You Say "Monopoly." On Solveig Singleton, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Patent, Copyright as Monopoly a 'Rhetorical Flourish,' IPcentral Snapshot (2006)- commons errors in applying monopoly analysis to IPRs.

posted by Noel Le @ 3:45 PM | Academia

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