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TechREG® Chronicle – Renewing Innovation

TechREG Chronicle® September 2026

Dear Readers,   For much of the past half-century, intellectual property and antitrust have been cast as uneasy neighbors: one grants exclusivity, the other polices it. That framing is under renewed pressure. Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of generating ideas while raising the cost of building the systems that...

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September

For much of the past half-century, intellectual property and antitrust have been cast as uneasy neighbors. The contributions to this edition of the TechREG Chronicle ask what it takes to renew innovation, and whether the two bodies of law are rivals or partners in that task.




August

This edition of the TechREG Chronicle turns to tokenization — the linking of real-world value to instruments that live on distributed ledgers.




July

The contributions in this Chronicle explore whether existing privacy frameworks remain fit for purpose in an environment characterized by large-scale data collection, increasingly sophisticated identification technologies, and evolving theories of harm.


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