Join the USPTO on Friday, August 20, for the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics, a one-day event organized with Professor Daniel F. Spulber, of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
The conference will bring together economics, business, and legal scholars to discuss the relationship between innovation, intellectual property, public policy, standards, and competition. It will include panel sessions focusing on empirical, legal, and theoretical contributions to:
- antitrust and intellectual property
- technology standards and standard setting organizations
- incentives for R&D, invention, and innovation
- intellectual property rights and public policy
Agenda
All times listed are in ET:
Agenda (subject to change)
Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11–11:15 a.m. | Registration & log-on | |
| 11:15–11:30 a.m. | Welcome and introduction to the conference | Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Nicholas Rada, USPTO |
| 11:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m. | Paper Session #1: Patents, trademarks, and innovation | Chair: Nicholas Rada, USPTO "Patents and the pro se inventor lifecycle: Evidence from a randomized control trial" "Visibility of technology and cumulative innovation: Evidence from trade secrets laws" "One product, many patents: Imperfect intellectual property rights in the pharmaceutical industry" "Vermeers and Rembrandts in the Same Attic: Complementarity between Copyright and Trademark in Firms’ Strategies" |
| 12:30–12:40 p.m. | Break | |
| 12:40–1:40 p.m. | Paper Session #2: Public policy, patents, and innovation | Chair: Mark Schankerman, London School of Economics "Truly standard-essential patents? A semantics-based analysis" "Dynamic Mergers Effects on R&D Investments and Drug Development across Research Phases in the Pharmaceutical Industry" "Venture Capitalists' Access to Finance and Its Impact on Startups" |
| 1:40–1:50 p.m. | Break | |
| 1:50–2:50 p.m. | Panel #3: Competition and innovation | Moderator: Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Panelists:
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| 2:50–3 p.m. | Closing remarks | Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
Additional information
For more information, visit the registration page or contact Hollis Robinson in the USPTO’s Global Intellectual Property Academy.
This virtual program has been organized by the USPTO’s Office of the Chief Economist (OCE), a unit of the USPTO’s Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA), and Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. OPIA advises the administration and other federal government departments and agencies on domestic and international intellectual property (IP) legal and policy issues. It also provides technical assistance and training on IP-related matters to U.S. stakeholders and both U.S. and foreign government officials.
For more information on past innovation economics conferences visit OCE’s conferences page.