Harvard researchers have discovered a new psychological capacity for cooperation. For decades, researchers have examined the psychology behind altruistic cooperation, when one person pays some cost to ...

The Guidelines for Patent Examination (hereinafter referred to as the examination guidelines) introduce the concept of "common knowledge" in determining the inventive step of a claimed invention.

One of the most beautiful fields of game theory is called “Common Knowledge.” One of its basic insights is that situations in which two individuals know a certain evidence are intrinsically different ...

Yujie Jin of Liu Shen & Associates explains the elements of Chinese patent law that deal with common knowledge, and gives advice on dealing with them during substantive examination Common knowledge is ...

Once upon a time, the term “encyclopedia” implied a heavy set of bound volumes sitting on a bookshelf. It was an invaluable resource for fathers who wanted to discuss the French Revolution at the ...

Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

From Henry Farrell and Bruce Schneier: "Existing approaches to cybersecurity emphasize either international state-to-state logics (such as deterrence theory) or the integrity of individual information ...

In Ross v. U.S., decided last month by the D.C. Court of Appeals, defendant had left her dog Cinnamon for over an hour in a parked car on a hot day (98 F) with the windows cracked open. (There was ...