Project 3: Liability Rules
Intellectual property protection of databases and alternative regimes to reconcile public science with the commercialization of research results.
This project uses legal scholarship and economic analysis to inquire about alternatives to the current IP regime in genomics, with particular attention to the possible consequences of exclusive patent rights and sui generis exclusive database rights (i.e., modeled on current practice in the European Union). The project also explores whether liability rules might achieve the intended aims of current patent, copyright, and database protection rights, while avoiding the problems of exclusive rights frameworks.
Key Personnel
Jerome Reichman, JD - School of Law.
Tracy Lewis, PhD - Fuqua School of Business.