January 2015 Patent Workshop
M-RCBG/MIT IDE/INET/CIGI research agenda workshop, Governing Innovation: the law, economics, and political economy of patent systems
January 16-17, 2015 at the Harvard Kennedy School. Except for the first two sessions, which will be at the Sheraton Commander, the workshop program will be in the Malkin Penthouse on the 4th floor of Littauer at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Friday – Sheraton Commander
9:00 – coffee and rolls available
10 – 10:30 Goals and introductions;
10:30 – 12:15 session 1
12:15 Lunch
1:15 – 3:00 session 2
3:00 break (move to Malkin Penthouse, Harvard Kennedy School)
3:30 – 5:15 session 3
5:15 reception
6:30 dinner (Alison Brimelow)
Saturday – Malkin Penthouse
8:00 coffee and continental breakfast
8:30 – 10:15 session 4
10:15 – 10:45 break
10:45 – 12:30 session 5
12:45 – 2:00 roundtable and lunch
2:00 adjourn
PANELS
Examples of questions at different levels of analysis
1. Knowledge and patents
Brian Kahin, MIT, co-chair (priorities; background essay; slides; slides2)
Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Stanford (priorities, background paper)
Jeremy West, OECD (priorities)
Mike Scherer, Harvard Kennedy School (priorities, background paper)
Colleen Chien, Santa Clara (priorities, background paper 1, background paper 2)
Maryann Feldman, NSF, co-chair
Gail Cohen, NAS/STEP
2. Business practice
Joshua Gans, Toronto (priorities)
Wes Cohen, Duke (priorities, background paper)
Robin Feldman, Hastings, co-chair (priorities)
Mike Meurer, BU (priorities)
Ove Granstrand, Chalmers (priorities) (background paper)
Lauren Cohen, Harvard (priorities)
William Bonvillian, MIT (priorities)
Steve Merrill, Duke, co-chair (priorities)
3. Market structure and market response
Dan McCurdy, RPX (priorities, updated data)
Dave Jones, Microsoft (priorities)
Tony Clayton, UKIPO (priorities, Boyle article)
Suzanne Michel, Google (priorities)
Jonathan Masur, Chicago (priorities, background paper 1, background paper 2)
Danny Goroff, Sloan Fdn, co-chair
Oonagh Fitzgerald /Myra Tawfik, CIGI (priorities, ILRP)
Terry Fisher, Harvard, co-chair
4. National institutions
Eli Dourado, GMU (priorities)
Jim Bessen, BU (priorities)
Melissa Wasserman, Illinois (priorities)
Colleen Chien, Santa Clara (priorities, background paper 1, background paper 2)
Arti Rai, Duke, co-chair (priorities)
David Colander, Middlebury, co-chair
5. International
Dieter Ernst, East-West Center (priorities, background paper 1, background paper 2, think piece)
Keith Maskus, Colorado (priorities),
Brian Kahin, MIT, (priorities; background essay)
John Zysman, Berkeley (BRIE), co-chair (background paper)
Domenico Lombardi, CIGI, co-chair (CIGI priorities) *
Closing roundtable
Marshall Auerback, Institute for New Economic Thinking
Jim Balsillie, CIGI/INET (priorities)
Alison Brimelow
Andrew Wyckoff, OECD
Other participants and observers
Bassem Awad, CIGI
Karima Bawa, CIGI
Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT
Dan Burk, UC Irvine
Paul Halucha, Industry Canada
Jim Hinton, CIGI
James F. Moore
David Moss, HBS
Chandler Reedy, Warburg Pincus
*introducing Karima Bawa