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From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement
Many legal decisions center on the thoughts or perceptions of some idealized group of individuals, referred to variously as the “average person,” “the typical consumer,” or the “reasonable person.” Substantial concerns exist, however, regarding the subjectivity and vulnerability to biases inherent i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9908014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36753556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo1095 |
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author | Zhang, Zhihao Good, Maxwell Kulikov, Vera van Horen, Femke Bartholomew, Mark Kayser, Andrew S. Hsu, Ming |
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description | Many legal decisions center on the thoughts or perceptions of some idealized group of individuals, referred to variously as the “average person,” “the typical consumer,” or the “reasonable person.” Substantial concerns exist, however, regarding the subjectivity and vulnerability to biases inherent in conventional means of assessing such responses, particularly the use of self-report evidence. Here, we addressed these concerns by complementing self-report evidence with neural data to inform the mental representations in question. Using an example from intellectual property law, we demonstrate that it is possible to construct a parsimonious neural index of visual similarity that can inform the reasonable person test of trademark infringement. Moreover, when aggregated across multiple participants, this index was able to detect experimenter-induced biases in self-report surveys in a sensitive and replicable fashion. Together, these findings potentially broaden the possibilities for neuroscientific data to inform legal decision-making across a range of settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-99080142023-02-09 From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement Zhang, Zhihao Good, Maxwell Kulikov, Vera van Horen, Femke Bartholomew, Mark Kayser, Andrew S. Hsu, Ming Sci Adv Neuroscience Many legal decisions center on the thoughts or perceptions of some idealized group of individuals, referred to variously as the “average person,” “the typical consumer,” or the “reasonable person.” Substantial concerns exist, however, regarding the subjectivity and vulnerability to biases inherent in conventional means of assessing such responses, particularly the use of self-report evidence. Here, we addressed these concerns by complementing self-report evidence with neural data to inform the mental representations in question. Using an example from intellectual property law, we demonstrate that it is possible to construct a parsimonious neural index of visual similarity that can inform the reasonable person test of trademark infringement. Moreover, when aggregated across multiple participants, this index was able to detect experimenter-induced biases in self-report surveys in a sensitive and replicable fashion. Together, these findings potentially broaden the possibilities for neuroscientific data to inform legal decision-making across a range of settings. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9908014/ /pubmed/36753556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo1095 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Zhang, Zhihao Good, Maxwell Kulikov, Vera van Horen, Femke Bartholomew, Mark Kayser, Andrew S. Hsu, Ming From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement |
title | From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement |
title_full | From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement |
title_fullStr | From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement |
title_full_unstemmed | From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement |
title_short | From scanner to court: A neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement |
title_sort | from scanner to court: a neuroscientifically informed “reasonable person” test of trademark infringement |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9908014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36753556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo1095 |
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