We are pleased to present the latest edition of CRA’s IP Literature Watch. This issue contains pieces on antitrust & IP, licensing, litigation, innovation, law and policy, copyright, and trade.
Some highlights from the issue:
- A working paper examining the effect of music reuse in movies, highlighting a boost in demand of reused music consumption, providing important implications for the policy debate on copyright and fair use;
- A paper empirically evaluating the Trademark Modernization Act, which created two new forms of administrative proceedings designed to clear spurious trademarks from the federal register, revealed the proceedings to be fairly reliable and moderately expeditious, but not likely a useful tool for combating at scale bad-faith trademark applications and registrations;
- An article discussing proactive ways to require the disclosure of “deep secrets,” while fulfilling the legitimate goals of trade secrecy laws, in order to protect social welfare as trade secrecy claims become more popular.
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