NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Standards, Patents & Innovation Conference

 

Timothy Simcoe, Ajay K. Agrawal, and Stuart Graham, Organizers

 

                                               The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa      

Room Canyon 1

3800 East Sunrise Drive

Tucson, AZ

 

January 20 and 21, 2012

 

Program

Thursday, January 19:

 

 

6:00 pm

Reception and Group Dinner – Mezzanine Deck and Cottonwood Room

 

Panel Discussion - Studying Standards: Data and Measurement Challenges

 

Moderator:  Stuart Graham, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

 

Rudi Bekkers, Eindhoven University of Technology (paper)

 

Brad Biddle, Intel Corporation (paper)

 

Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer Updegrove LLP

 

Friday, January 20:

 

 

7:45 am

Continental Breakfast – Room Canyon 1

 

 

8:15 am

Emek Basker, University of Missouri

 

Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector

 

 

 

Discussant:  Tim Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

9:15 am

Aija Leiponen, Imperial College London

 

Henry Delcamp, Cerna, Mines ParisTech

 

Innovating Standards through Informal Consortia: The Case of Wireless Telecommunications

 

 

 

Discussant:  Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Marco Ceccagnoli, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Christopher Forman, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Wen Wen, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Patent Pools, Thickets, and the Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms

 

 

Discussant:  Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

11:30 am

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

 

 

 

Discussant:  Keith Maskus, University of Colorado

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch – Terrace Level Patio and Foyer

 

 

1:45 pm

Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Texas at Dallas

 

Emanuele Tarantino, University of Bologna

 

Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting

 

 

 

Discussant:  Marc Rysman, Boston University

 

 

2:45 pm

Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin

 

A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry

 

 

 

Discussant:  Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

3:45 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Catherine Tucker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Patent Trolls and Technology Diffusion

 

 

 

Discussant:  Anne Layne-Farrar, Compass Lexecon

 

 

5:00 pm

Policy Panel

 

Ann Armstrong, Intel Corporation

 

Dan Lang, Cisco Systems, Inc.

 

Monica Barone, Qualcomm

 

Fiona Scott-Morton, U.S. Department of Justice

 

 

5:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 pm

Reception – La Paloma Country Club, South Patio

Group Dinner – La Paloma Country Club, Dining Room

 

 

Saturday, January 21:

 

 

7:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:00 am

Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER

 

Ryan Lampe, DePaul University

 

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 Industries in the 1930s

 

 

 

Discussant:  David Mowery, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

 

9:00 am

Matthew Mitchell, University of Toronto

 

Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Rewarding Duopoly Innovators: The Price of Exclusivity

 

 

Discussant:  Mike Meurer, Boston University

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Bhaven Sampat, Columbia University

 

Scott Hemphill, Columbia University

 

Weak Patents Are a Weak Deterrent: Patent Portfolios, the Orange Book Listing Standard, and Generic Entry in Pharmaceuticals

 

 

 

Discussant:  Iain Cockburn, Boston University and NBER

 

 

11:30 am

Daniel C Fehder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fiona Murray, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Scott Stern, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Intellectual Property Rights and the Evolution of Scientific Journals as Knowledge Platforms

 

 

 

Discussant:  Nancy Gallini, University of British Columbia

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Concluding Remarks – Terrace Level Patio and Foyer

 

 

1:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Participant list