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Record W1569871744

Tying and Intellectual Property

2009· article· en· W1569871744 on OpenAlex
Edward Iacobucci, Ralph A. Winter

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace (University of Toronto) · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicMerger and Competition Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTyingCompetition (biology)Intellectual propertyIncentiveOrder (exchange)Law and economicsEconomicsIndustrial organizationBusinessLawMicroeconomicsPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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In perhaps no other area of competition policy is there greater dispute over the appropriate legal rule as there is over the practice of tying. The authors consider when tying is anti-competitive and when the practice should be prohibited, adopting economic efficiency as the policy criterion. Through a review of prominent economic theories and case studies of tying, the variant circumstances in which tying can be pro-competitive, ambiguous, or anti-competitive are explored. Additionally, the linkage with intellectual property rights is discussed to understand how tying affects the relationship between innovation incentives and static market efficiency that is at the core of optimal IP policy. The authors conclude that antitrust authorities cannot rely on general rules in concluding that tying in a given case violates antitrust laws, but must rely on case-by-case analysis. Given the relative rarity of anti-competitive tying, the authorities should require significant evidence of anti-competitive effects before making an order against tying.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.771
Threshold uncertainty score0.991

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0270.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it