Research

Bernard Chao, Ryan Whalen, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and S. Sean Tu

Clearing Dense Drug-Patent Thickets

Brand-name drug manufacturers in the United States charge high prices during market-exclusivity periods, enabled by patents that block direct competition from generics and biosimilars. When bringing a generic or biosimilar drug to the market, potential competitors must avoid infringing on each patent protecting the brand-name drug by waiting for relevant patents to expire, making product-design choices to avoid overlap with patented inventions,…

November 27, 2024

Anne Cheung

科網難逃

Writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in October 2024

October 30, 2024

Anne Cheung

螢光色的一生

Writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in August 2024.

August 30, 2024

Kelvin Low

Cryptoassets and the Renaissance of the Tertium Quid?

The explosion of interest in cryptoassets has revived interest in a curious notion in the law of personal property: the tertium quid or personal property that is neither a thing in possession nor a thing in action. This renaissance, however, has not taken into account historical debates over the same or the law’s experience of the same in respect of patents. Once…

August 20, 2024

Anne Cheung

23與我

Writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in July 2024.

July 22, 2024

Taorui Guan

Personalizing Patent Law with Social Credit Data

In the era of digitization, data has become a pivotal force driving advancements across various sectors and transforming legal systems worldwide. China, in particular, is exploring new data-driven governance models. A prime example of this is its integration of the patent system with the Social Credit System (SCS). This paper aims to fill the void in theoretical research on this subject, moving…

July 8, 2024

Anne Cheung

AI 馴民

Writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in April 2024.

May 3, 2024

Timothy Chan and Kelvin Low

Post-Scam Crypto Recovery: Final Clarity or Deceptive Simplicity?

In Jones v Persons Unknown [2022] EWHC 2543 (Comm), Nigel Cooper QC handed down the first final judgment on a claim to recover cryptoassets following a scam. While both the result and the reasoning may seem straightforward at first glance, a deeper analysis of the judgment reveals a concealed plethora of legal complications. This note critiques certain aspects of the court’s reasoning…

March 30, 2023

Peter Watts and Kelvin Low

The Case for Cryptoassets as Property

Cryptoassets, introduced in the wake of the Great Recession (2007-2009), have proven to be very divisive. Embraced by some as part of a revolutionary future, they are derided by others as the misconceived fever dream of naïve technologists who don’t understand how the real world works. Despite a recent meltdown in the cryptoasset markets, or perhaps because of it, the courts will…

April 1, 2024

Anne Cheung

良緣AI賜？

Writing by Anne Cheung published on Ming Pao in February 2024.

February 29, 2024