In this month’s IP Literature Watch we include a paper exploring how multimarket contact (MMC) explains competitors’ intellectual property (IP) infringement-litigation dynamics; a study elucidating whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system which is currently existing in Germany; a paper undertaking a law-and-economics analysis of the remedy of destruction of products that infringe intellectual property (IP) rights; a study using a signaling game to evaluate the incentives that affect an inventor’s decision whether to work in a firm’s lab or establish a start-up; an article focusing on analyzing and comparing trade secret laws in developing and developed countries, specifically India and Germany; a chapter providing a perspective on access to regulation and the legitimacy of private rulemaking by studying the issue of public access to copyrighted standards that have become a part of law; and a paper offering a primer on the basic economics of film finance and standard practices in the US movie industry.
An economic interpretation of Rule 23(b)(3) for antitrust classes
In this article, CRA’s Sean Durkin explains the economic incentives behind class definitions in antitrust cases and why those incentives can lead to classes...