CRA Insights

IP Literature Watch: December 2025

January 14, 2026
Literature watch | Charles River Associates

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 paper discussing DNA data and computer data storage and retrieval, along with the legal challenges of DNA as an information storage medium, specifically focusing upon copyrightability and copyright infringement;
  • An article that reviews theoretical and empirical evidence on how patent rights shape cumulative innovation; and
  • An essay that uses a comparative framework to show that sophisticated design rights holders in both the United States and the European Union increasingly sidestep specialized design regimes in favor of more expansive trademark and copyright doctrines.

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