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As part of the project “Data Governance in Emerging Economies to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, a second report has now been presented – this is a joint effort with researchers from India. The focus here is on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3), which aims to ensure good health and well-being for all.
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Patents are designed to incentivize innovation, but pharmaceutical firms often extend market exclusivity with secondary patents on marginally beneficial improvements. Such behaviors evoke discussions about raising patentability standards. Lucy Xiaolu Wang and Dennis Byrski have now received the Program Chair Award of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) for a new study on this topic.
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In Brief
People + + + Rupprecht Podszun was appointed to the German Monopolies Commission. More
Award + + + Annette Kur was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame. More
Grant + + + Laurie Ciaramella has received a French Research National Agency (ANR) grant. More
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Event Report
Since its premiere in 2016, the Munich Summer Institute, which has now been held for the eighth time, has aimed to foster networking within an international and interdisciplinary research community. It is jointly organized by the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, the Technical University of Munich, the ISTO at LMU Munich, HEC Lausanne, and Cornell University. More
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Event Registration
Two years after the Florence SEP Seminar, the European University Institute (EUI) and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition invite to their scientific conference on “IP, Competition and Innovation” to be held in Florence at the EUI Campus on 3 – 4 October 2024. As a recognized authority in his field, Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania) will give a keynote that promises to provide valuable insights into current antitrust issues. More
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Event Registration
After its debut in Hamburg last year, the #FutureOfLaw BarCamp will take place this year on 7 November 2024 at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. The registration for the BarCamp for undergraduate and graduate studets of law and related disciplines is now open. Find out what participants can expect and whether camping equipment is required at the following link.
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The authors introduce PaECTER, a semantic similarity model using deep learning. The goal is to identify similar patents and publications based on their text content. Semantic similarity search is especially relevant in the context of prior art search for both inventors and patent examiners. Most tools are not scalable, use outdated methods, or are domain-specific. Often they are not open source. PaECTER out-performs all openly available models in the patent domain and performs well in the scientific domain.
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Teams play a key role in tackling complex societal challenges, such as developing vaccines or novel clean energy technologies. Yet, the effect of air pollution on team performance in non-routine problem-solving tasks is not well explored. The authors document a sizable adverse effect of air pollution on team performance using data from 15,000 live escape games in London. On high-pollution days, teams take on average 5% more time to solve a sequence of non-routine analytical tasks, which require collaborative skills analogous to those needed in the modern workplace. As team efforts predominantly drive innovation, high levels of air pollution may significantly hamper economic development.
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Daria Kim examines the often-invoked claim that generative AI exhibits “emergent” properties, drawing on the perspectives on complex systems. She shows that the predictive ability of neural networks can be viewed as a weak form of emergence according to some definitions. Furthermore, Daria Kim emphasizes the essential role of human impact on AI’s “emergent” capabilities in their normative assessment.
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Artha Dermawan examines the implications of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) within the framework of copyright law, drawing analogies between the foundational principles of Surrealism, particularly psychic automatism, and the contemporary practice of authors collaborating with GenAI technologies. Artha Dermawan provides a thorough analysis of the European Union's legislative responses, with particular emphasis on the Text and Data Mining (TDM) exceptions outlined in the Digital Single Market Directive, and emphasizes the urgent need for a more effective remuneration mechanism for authors.
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