Conference on the Economics of Competition and Innovation

October 26-27, 2007

University of California at Berkeley

Alumni House

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UC Berkeley Conference on the Economics of Competition and Innovation

Alumni House, Berkeley, CA

October 26-27, 2007

Friday October 26

8:45                 Welcoming Remarks

9:00-10:30       Session I:  Permanent Injunctions
Session Chair:  Richard Gilbert
Carl Shapiro:  Injunctions, Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties
Anne Layne-Farrar: Revisiting Injunctive Relief in High-Tech Industries with Non-Practicing Patent Holders
Discussants:  David Levine, Aaron Edlin

10:30-10:45     Break

10:45-12:15     Session II:  Patent Pools and Standard Development Organizations
Session Chair:  Rob Merges
Luis Cabral: Evolving Technologies and Standardization
Jay Pil Choi: Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing in the Shadow of Patent Litigation
Discussants:  Tim Simcoe, Michael Schwarz

12:15-1:30       Lunch:  Keynote talk: Brad Smith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation
 
1:30-3:00         Session III:  Weak Patents and Complex Innovations
Session Chair:  Carl Shapiro
Joe Farrell:  How Strong Are Weak Patents?
Mike Katz:  Efficient Division of Profits from Complex Innovations
Discussants: Nick Economides, Vincenzo Denicolo

3:00-3:15         Break

3:15-4:45         Session IV:  Empirical Studies
Session Chair:  David Stewart
Lee Branstetter: IP Protection and Foreign Direct Investment
Petra Moser: Why Don’t Inventors Patent?
Discussants: Bronwyn Hall, David Zilberman

4:45 – 5:00       Break

5:00-6:00         Session V:  Panel on Pharmaceutical Patents

Session Chair:   Brian Wright
Iain Cockburn, Stuart Graham, Matt Higgins, Frank Lichtenberg, Michael Schwarz

6:00                 Reception and Dinner

Saturday October 27

9:00-11:00       Session VI:  Patent Valuation and Litigation
Session Chair: Nick Economides
Jim Bessen: Estimates of Patent Rents
Dietmar Harhoff: Determinants of the Value of Patents
Bronwyn Hall: An Empirical Analysis of Patent Litigation in the Semiconductor Industry
Discussants:  Uli Doraszelski, Liran Einav, Tim Bresnahan

11:00-11:15     Break

11:15-12:30     Session VII:  Panel on Patent Reform
Session Chair:  Richard Gilbert
David Jones, David Levine, Suzanne Scotchmer, Carl Shapiro

Conference Sponsors:
UC Berkeley: Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, Center for Law and Technology; Microsoft Corporation; Competition Policy Associates; Howrey, LLC

Conference Staff/Contacts

Professor Richard Gilbert, Conference Chair

gilbert@econ.berkeley.edu

Jane Gonzales, Conference Organizer

jgonzalez@haas.berkeley.edu

 

Competition Policy Center

University of California, Berkeley

phone: (510) 642-8351

fax: (510) 642-5018

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