NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Summer Institute 2006

 

Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation

 

Ben Jones and Scott Stern, Organizers

 

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

 

NBER

2nd floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2006

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 am

BRONWYN HALL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

 

The Private Value of Software Patents

 

 

 

Discussant:  JAMES BESSEN, Boston University

 

 

10:00 am

MARK SCHANKERMAN, London School of Economics

 

MICHAEL NOEL, UC, San Diego

 

Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation

 

 

 

Discussant:  IAIN COCKBURN, Boston University and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

MARGARET KYLE, Duke University and NBER

 

Strategic Responses to Parallel Trade

 

 

 

Discussant:  FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

  1:15 pm

YI QIAN, Harvard University

 

Pricing and Marketing Impacts of Entry by Counterfeiters and Imitators

 

 

 

Discussant: JOEL WALDFOGEL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

JOSEPH FARRELL, UC, Berkeley

 

CARL SHAPIRO, UC, Berkeley

 

How Strong are Weak Patents?

 

 

 

Discussant:  JOSH LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 3:30 pm

DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

UFUK AKCIGIT, MIT

 

State-Dependent Intellectual Property Right Policy

 

 

 

Discussant: SUZANNE SCOTCHMER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/27/06