TechREG Chronicle

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...

Dear Readers,   This edition of the TechREG Chronicle turns to tokenization — the linking of real-world value to instruments that live on distributed ledgers. A year after the GENIUS...

The GENIUS Act prohibits yield-bearing payment stablecoins prompting efforts at structural innovation designed to preserve the economic appeal of yield and yet remaining within the regulatory perimeter. A recent concept...

Tokenized products increasingly present the economic indicia of an investment in a legal form that may sit outside the traditional securities perimeter. This article examines the gap between what a...

Behind crypto-assets often lies a misleading narrative that sets them against traditional finance, seen as more transparent and reliable. However, the real change taking place in financial markets is broader...

In this article, the author argues that within five years tokenization will have advanced far enough that "tokenized assets" will simply be known as assets. He sets out the eight...

Tokenization of real-world assets has shown great utility and potential. But tokenization needs to be effected through a structure that is workable under private commercial law.  That law is largely...