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Recent publications on intellectual property issues include:
1. "The Department of Justice's long-awaited and much needed course-correction on FRAND-assured standard-essential patents" by Douglas H. Ginsburg and Koren W. Wong-Ervin, discussing the policy implications of the Assistant Attorney General's remarks on standard-essential patents.
2. "Economic analysis of network effects and intellectual property" by Peter S. Menell, surveying and integrating economic, business strategy, and legal literatures relating to network effects and intellectual property.
3. "A solution in search of a problem at the biologics frontier" by Erika Fisher Lietzan, commenting on Professor Carrier's article on antitrust issues in the biologics marketplace and suggesting a focus on the possibility that the new scheme may harm incentives for innovation.
4. "Government spending shocks and firm innovation" by Ruchith Dissanayake, Yanhui Wu, and Huizhong Zhang, documenting a negative association between expected changes to government spending and firm-level innovation.
5. "Technology standards and standard setting organizations: introduction to the Searle Center Database" by Justus Baron and Daniel F. Spulber, describing a database combining information on technology standards, standard setting organizations, and institutional membership.
6. "Understanding open source and free software licensing mechanism: a close review of the alternative approach to traditional notions of software licensing" by Maryna Manteghi, reviewing the alternative approach to traditional software licensing.