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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Standards, Patents & Innovation Pre-Conference
Timothy Simcoe, Ajay K. Agrawal, and Stuart Graham, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Room University BC
40 Edwin H. land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
May 7, 2011
PROGRAM
Friday, May 6:
7:00 pm	Dinner Legal Sea Foods Kendall Square 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02139
Saturday, May 7:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER Ryan Lampe, DePaul University
	Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from Eight Industries in the 1930s
9:30 am	Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University Scott Hemphill, Columbia University
	Patent Thickets, Patent Listing Standards, and Generic Competition in Pharmaceuticals
10:15 am	Break
10:15 am	Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin
	A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry-- Paper Outline
10:45 am	Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Texas at Dallas Emanuele Tarantino, University of Bologna
	Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
11:15 am	Aija Leiponen, Imperial College London Henry Delcamp, Cerna, Mines ParisTech
	Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia: The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
11:45 am	Matthew Mitchell, University of Toronto Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
	Optimal Patent Policy with Recurrent Innovators
12:15 pm	Lunch – Room University A
1:15 pm	Joseph Clougherty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Michal Grajek, ESMT European School of Management and Technology
	International Standards and International Trade: Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion
1:45 pm	Joe Farrell, University of California, Berkeley
	Economics of Nondiscrimination in Licensing Patents for Standards
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Patent Trolls and Technology Adoption
3:00 pm	Emek Basker, University of Missouri
	Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector
3:30 pm	Wen Wen, Georgia Institute of Technology Marco Ceccagnoli, Georgia Institute of Technology Christopher Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Patent Pools, Thickets, and the Open Source Commercialization Strategies of Start-Up Firms
4:00 pm	Break
4:15 pm	Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Learning to Live with Patents: A Evolving Norms in Response to Legal Institutional Change
4:45 pm	Rudi Bekkers, Eindhoven University of Technology Arianna Martinelli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
	Standardizing Intellectual Property Disclosure Data
5:15 pm	Adjourn