TechREG Chronicle

Dear readers, When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded last year’s prize in economics to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, it returned Joseph Schumpeter’s “perennial gale of...

This article revisits the disruption thesis that Clayton Christensen made famous in Silicon Valley, and the comfort it has long offered those who counsel antitrust restraint. Tracing the eco¬nomics from...

Competitive advantage is becoming less durable as intangible assets, digital platforms, and artificial intelligence increase both the speed of scaling and the speed of imitation. This article argues that established...

Canada has long been a world leader in artificial intelligence research, yet it trails its peers in adopting, financing, and retaining the value of that research. This paper examines the...

Generative AI has driven the cost of building software toward zero. "Vibe coding" lets a found­er with an idea and a weekend ship a working product, and the start-up landscape...

Creative destruction in its laissez faire formulation stands for the proposition that government inter­vention in markets is not necessary because no monopoly position lasts forever. A monopoly po­sition is built...

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...

In this edition of CPI Talks, we speak with Coke Morgan Stewart, President and CEO of the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) and former Deputy Director of the United States...

Artificial intelligence is radically changing the nature and economics of invention and creative production. Generative AI models can draft prose, produce source code, design potential new drugs, suggest engineering solutions,...

It is widely assumed that intellectual property, understood as a monopoly right designed to incentivize innovation, inherently stands in tension with antitrust’s commitment to preserving competition.  Yet this assumption is...

Standards are common platforms that allow products to work together. Sometimes, the owners of patents incorporated into standards receive royalty payments from those adopting the standard. But other times, standards...

The article examines the competition law implications of standard-essential patent ("SEP") licensing in Brazil, particularly the potential characterization of licensing practices that do not comply with FRAND terms as an...