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View article: Measuring the Value of Trademark Distinctiveness: Evidence From the Market for Bordeaux Wine
Measuring the Value of Trademark Distinctiveness: Evidence From the Market for Bordeaux Wine Open
The market value of distinctive trademarks is a fundamental assumption of both trademark law and marketing theory. However, there is little empirical evidence underlying this assumption. We examine the relationship between brand dissimilar…
View article: Replication Data for Labor Mobility and the Problems of Modern Policing
Replication Data for Labor Mobility and the Problems of Modern Policing Open
Modern policing is characterized by multiple well-understood pathologies. As scholars have shown, police officers engage in a significant amount of illegal violence and abusive behavior, particularly against people of color. Attempts to di…
View article: Patent law : cases, problems, and materials
Patent law : cases, problems, and materials Open
The 3rd Edition of Patent Law: Cases, Problems, and Materials is a public accessible patent law casebook. The full casebook PDF is downloadable online free of charge, and a print version is available at-cost from Amazon. The focus of this …
View article: How Many Latours Is Too Many? Measuring Brand Name Congestion in Bordeaux Wine
How Many Latours Is Too Many? Measuring Brand Name Congestion in Bordeaux Wine Open
Firms rely on brand names to market goods to consumers, and consumers rely on brand names to locate goods that satisfy their preferences. If multiple firms are using the same or similar names, consumers may be confused about which product …
View article: JWE volume 16 issue 4 Cover and Back matter
JWE volume 16 issue 4 Cover and Back matter Open
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View article: Chevronizing Around Cost-Benefit Analysis
Chevronizing Around Cost-Benefit Analysis Open
The Trump administration’s efforts to weaken regulations are in tension with cost-benefit analysis, which in many cases supports those regulations or otherwise fails to support the administration’s deregulatory objectives. Rather than atte…
View article: Drugs, Patents, and Well-Being
Drugs, Patents, and Well-Being Open
The ultimate end of patent law must be to spur innovations that improve human welfare—innovations that make people better off. But firms will only invest resources in developing patentable inventions that will allow them to make money—that…
View article: Police Violence in The Wire
Police Violence in The Wire Open
Police brutality—the unsanctioned, unlawful use of force by police against unarmed (and often defenseless) civilians—is one of the recurring motifs of The Wire.1 The violence occurs in a variety of settings: occasionally the victim of the …
View article: Patents, Property, and Prospectivity
Patents, Property, and Prospectivity Open
When judges change the legal rules governing patents, those changes are always retroactive. That is, they apply equally to patents that have already been granted and patents that do not yet exist. There are benefits to making a change in t…
View article: Norming in Administrative Law
Norming in Administrative Law Open
How do regulatory agencies decide how strictly to regulate an industry? They sometimes use cost-benefit analysis or claim to, but more often the standards they invoke are so vague as to be meaningless. This raises the question whether the …