Regulatory Competitive Shelters

Publication Title

Ohio State Law Journal

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

This Article identifies an array of seemingly disparate federal exclusivity regimes as belonging to an increasingly prevalent and relatively new class of highly valuable government benefits, which it names “regulatory competitive shelters” (RCSs). It characterizes RCSs and distinguishes them from other, more traditional kinds of government-instituted properties. The Article then proceeds to describe a particular brand of RCSs established in federal statutory frameworks whose aim—much like patents—is to create incentives for technological innovation. Identifying several common motifs of such RCS regimes, the Article offers a taxonomy of these RCSs and describes the mechanisms by which RCSs instituted under such regimes achieve their goals. Part III of this Article surveys—for the first time under a single title— all of the RCS regimes instituted to date in federal law which are aimed at promoting technological innovation. The Article concludes with a discussion of several aspects of RCSs that require further inquiry and will be further discussed in later articles.

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Recommended Citation

Yaniv Heled, Regulatory Competitive Shelters, 76 Ohio St. L.J. 299 (2015).

Volume

76

Issue

2

First Page

299

Last Page

356

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