New Intellectual Property Newsletter Launched

Today, a new publication on patents, copyrights and other intellectual property was released. The free Internet newsletter is written by scholars in economics and law to an audience of both researchers and interested non-academics.

May 29, 2002 - Today, a new publication on patents, copyrights and other intellectual property was released. The free Internet newsletter is called "Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property" (TIIP). It reports on recent research in the economics, law, history and sociology of intellectual property, including Free/Open Source Software. Written primarily by economists and legal scholars, the newsletter contains brief, easy to understand summaries of research papers. The newsletter aims to help researchers and interested non-academics keep abreast of this rapidly expanding literature.

Todays issue includes summaries of research on obvious patents in the U.S. courts, on making medicines affordable in developing nations, and on why firms choose to develop Free Software. The full issue may be viewed at http://www.researchoninnovation.org/tiip/archive/2002-2.htm.

Anyone may subscribe by sending an email to tiip@netreach.net with "Subscribe" as the subject.

The TIIP Editorial Board consists of James Bessen, Editor (Research on Innovation), Robert Hunt (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), Kristina Lybecker (Drexel University, Economics), Cecil Quillen, Jr. (Cornerstone Research, Law), Arti Rai (University of Pennsylvania, Law), and Rosemarie Ziedonis (University of Pennsylvania, Wharton). In addition, some two dozen Contributing Editors submit research summaries. The newsletter is sponsored by Research on Innovation, a non-profit research organization.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact James Bessen at tiip@netreach.net or visit the newsletter website at http://www.researchoninnovation.org/tiip/.