Modern trademark scholarship and jurisprudence view trademark law as an institution aimed at improving the amount and quality of information available in the marketplace. Under this paradigm—known as the search-costs theory of trademarks—trademarks are socially beneficial because they reduce consumer search…
Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Social Science Research Council Comments on Software Piracy
The Social Science Research Council submitted a Comment to the USTR about software piracy, as part of the public hearing process for the 2011 Special 301 Report. The submission cites, and largely echoes, my 2005 paper on network effects and…
