Volume 3, Issue 27
July 6, 2007

Patents Make Small-Specialized Firms Attractive

Contrary to what some will argue, all firms, including small-specialized firms, benefit from intellectual property protection. Noel Le collects evidence from some academic articles on the matter.

- Read Noel's blog here (7/6/07)

Yet more on privacy concerns in the context of IP

P2P filesharing software has been known to share information that users do not always want to share. Solveig Singleton argues that the problem is due to the way consumers perceive things that are "free" and offers some interesting parallels for different sectors of the media.

- Read Solveig's blog here (7/5/07)

The Understated Cost of Innovation

Noel Le outlines some of the errors people make in estimating the total cost of developing an innovation

- Real Noel's blog here (7/3/07)

Ronald Cass on Thailand and IP

Thailand's placement on the Priority Watch List for intellectual property violations has spurred some debate around Washington. Solveig Singleton explains the way intellectual property laws are enforced in Thailand and reaches an interesting conclusion about the importation of Western-styled laws by developing countries.

- Read Solveig's blog here (7/2/07)