Camilla Hrdy, Intellectual Property and the End of Work, 71 Florida Law Review 303 (2019). Do intellectual property (IP) rights create or destroy jobs (or both)? Industry associations and governmental agencies, such as the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), frequently tout IP as a major force in creating (good) jobs as well as significantly contributing to economic growth. In 2016, the PTO, for instance, claimed that IP-intensive industries were directly or indirectly responsible for 45.5 million jobs, said to represent 30 percent of all jobs in the US. Without questioning this statistic, Professor Hrdy’s article explains that this is at best only one side of the story … (more)
[Pamela Samuelson, JOTWELL, 17 February]
First posted 2020-02-17 16:16:42
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