Document Type
Book Part
Publication Date
2022
Status
Accepted
Abstract
Times are changing as our global ecosystem for commercializing innovation helps bring new technologies to market, networks grow, interconnections and transactions become more complex around standards and otherwise, all to enable vast opportunities to improve the human condition, to further competition, and to improve broad access. The policies that governments use to structure their legal systems for intellectual property, especially patents, as well as for competition—or antitrust—continue to have myriad powerful impacts and raise intense debates over challenging questions. This Chapter explores a representative set of debates about policy approaches to patents, to elucidate particular ideas to bear in mind about how adopting a private law, property rights-based approach to patents enables them to better operate as tools for facilitating the commercialization of new technologies in ways that best promote the goals of increasing access while fostering competition and security for a diverse and inclusive society.
GW Paper Series
2022-47
SSRN Link
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4203890
Recommended Citation
Working Paper for chapter in book titled 5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things (Jonathan M. Barnet & Sean M. O’Connor, eds) (forthcoming)