Research

Ronald Yu & Kenneth Yip

New Changes, New Possibilities: China’s Latest Patent Law Amendments

New amendments to China’s Patent Law feature open licensing which should encourage the use of patents, and promote the more rapid broadcast and dissemination of new technology. They should also offer the possibility of greater transactional visibility, transparency and traceability which has important ramifications for IP valuation and reporting in IPOs, annual and other reports. Other provisions underscore China’s efforts to improve…

March 9, 2021

Haochen Sun

Bridging the Digital Chasm through the Fundamental Right to Technology

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed extreme inequities in Internet access throughout the United States. It is estimated that approximately 42 million American people still lacked the capacity to purchase broadband Internet access as of February 2020. Given the scale of this social problem and the urgent need to address it, this Article suggests that it is time to recognize a new fundamental right…

May 14, 2021

Adrian Kuenzler

Intellectual property on the cusp of the intangible economy

This contribution illustrates that, while technological advancements gradually remove the natural scarcity of goods, the law increasingly has turned to the protection of immaterial rarity so as to conserve the market’s original condition. At the same time, advances in the gathering and use of consumers’ data are opening up new possibilities for consumption so that the traditional producer will likely suffer significant…

May 3, 2021

Ronald Yu

A Caveat for AI Developers

This online article talks about issues of IP infringement over data collected by TDM systems.  To view full article, please click here: https://www.inhousecommunity.com/article/ihc-magazine-april-2021-including-firms-year-2021-results/.   Author: Ronald Yu Published in In-House Community Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 1, April 2021

April 28, 2021

Edited by Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ng-Loy Wee Loon and Haochen Sun

The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions

While copyright law is ordinarily thought to consist primarily of exclusive rights, the regime’s various exemptions and immunities from liability for copyright infringement form an integral part of its functioning, and serve to balance copyright’s grant of a private benefit to authors/creators with the broader public interest. With contributors from all over the world, this handbook offers a systematic, thorough study of…

April 27, 2021

Bryan Mercurio and Ronald Yu

An AI Policy for the (near) Future

Digital trade and digitally enabled services hold the promise of much-needed future growth and prosperity, but also pose unique challenges for trade policymaking. This eBook presents the proceedings from a conference organised by the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the UK Trade Policy Observatory, hosted by CEPR,  to discuss new directions for digital trade policy.   To download…

April 27, 2021

Benjamin Chen

The Expressiveness of Regulatory Trade-Offs

Trade-offs between a sacred value — like human life — against a secular one — like money — are described as taboo. People are supposed to be offended by such trade-offs and to punish those who contemplate it. Yet, the last decades have witnessed the rise of the cost-benefit state. Most of the major rules promulgated today undergo a regulatory impact analysis…

March 1, 2021

Le Yu, Xiapu Luo, Jiachi Chen, Hao Zhou, Tao Zhang, Henry Chang, and Hareton K. N. Leung

PPChecker: Towards Accessing the Trustworthiness of Android Apps’ Privacy Policies

Recent years have witnessed a sharp increase of malicious apps that steal users’ personal information. To address users’ concerns about privacy risks and to comply with data protection laws, more and more apps are supplied with privacy policies written in natural language to help users understand an app’s privacy practices. However, little is known whether these privacy policies are trustworthy or not.…

February 24, 2021