Christophe Gösken

About me

I am a final-year doctoral candidate in Law & Economics at ETH Zurich and incoming Hauser & Remarque Global Fellow at New York University, where I investigate how intellectual property law and emerging technologies shape governance in digital markets.

Research Agenda

My research examines how intellectual property law structures innovation, authenticity, and market governance in cultural and technology-driven industries. Combining legal analysis with empirical methods, I study authentication technologies and the legal infrastructures through which cultural value is stabilized and contested in global markets. My current projects draw on survey data as well as fieldwork across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

News

2026

Presentation @ 6th ORIGINALLUXURY Roundtable

Transparency and the New Law & Economics of Luxury Resale

Chateau Le Rosey, Switzerland

2026

Intellectual Property and the Diffusion of Culture: Evidence from the Luxury Watch Industry

Preprint

Now available on SSRN [Read the paper]

2026

Hauser & Remarque Global Fellowship (accepted)

The Remarque Institute & School of Law

New York University (NYU), USA

2026

4iP Council Research Award (1st place), for:

Post-Sale Governance and Innovation: Evidence of Authentication Strategies in Luxury Watch Resale Markets

Brussels, Belgium

2026

Presentation @ 44th Annual Congress of ATRIP (PhD Workshop)

Branding the Nation: Intellectual Property as Cultural Statecraft

University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil

Ongoing Research

Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry, 2026, preprint available on SSRN.

Blockchain, Lemons, and the New Limits of Trademark Exhaustion, 2026, under review.

Law, Legitimacy, and Social Norms: A Cross-National Study of Digital Piracy Attitudes in Europe, 2026, working paper.

Luxury Brands as Industrial Policy: The Political Economy of Selective Distribution in the EU, 2025, working paper.

Forgery and the Laws of Authenticity in Contemporary Art Markets, ongoing project.

Selected Publications

Fashioning Authenticity: How Digital Product Passports Could Shape the Future of Trademark Law, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice – Special Issue on Fashion Law, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2025.

SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark (co-author), Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025.

Counterfeit Goods and Organized Crime: An Intractable Problem, Review of Counterfeit Goods and Organised Crime by Prof. Michael Blakeney, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Vol. 19, no. 11, 2024.

A Taxonomy for Blockchain-Based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) (co-author), IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2023.

Awards

2026-2027

Hauser & Remarque Global Fellowship

The Remarque Institute & School of Law @ NYU

New York, USA

2026

4iP Council Research Award (1st place)

Post-Sale Governance and Innovation: Evidence of Authentication Strategies in Luxury Watch Resale Markets

Brussels, Belgium

2025

Best Conference Paper @
Asian Society for Innovation and Policy Conference (ASIP)

Luxury, IP, and Cultural Innovation – An Influential Relationship

Kaohsiung City

2025

Best Conference Paper @
Institute of Brand and Innovation Law PhD Workshop, University College London (UCL)

Luxury, IP, and Cultural Innovation – An Influential Relationship

London, United Kingdom