NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

 

Intellectual Property Policy and Innovation

 

Joshua Lerner, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 22, 2003

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Session 1: The Economic Impact of Patent Policy Changes

 

 

9:00 AM

YI QIAN, Harvard University

 

Do Additional National Patent Laws Stimulate Domestic Innovation in a

 

Global Patenting Environment?

 

 

 

LEE BRANSTETTER and RAY FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER

 

C. FRITZ FOLEY, University of Michigan

 

Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer?

 

Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data

 

 

 

Discussants:  NANCY GALLINI, University of British Columbia

 

                    MICHAEL MEURER, Boston University

10:45 AM

Break

 

 

Session 2: The Law and Implementation of Intellectual Property

 

 

11:00 AM

MARK A. LEMLEY, UC, Berkeley

 

Ex Ante versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property

 

 

 

LAWRENCE SUNG, University of Maryland

 

Non-Majority Opinions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

 

Federal Circuit in Patent-Related Cases (1982-2003)

 

 

 

Discussants:  DAVID MOWERY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

                    KIMBERLY MOORE, George Mason University

 

 

12:45 PM

Lunch

 

 

1:30 PM

The National Academies of Science Study,

 

AIntellectual Property in the Knowledge Based Economy@

 

 

 

Discussion Led by MARK MYERS, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 2:30 PM

Adjourn

 

 

6/18/03