IP Days 2021
Thursday and Friday,
July 29-30, 2021
Hosted virtually by TPRI @ BU Law
Intellectual property rights provide incentives to innovate, but those incentives depend crucially on the administrative and legal processes that determine the scope of inventors’ rights. How well do administrative processes like patent examination work? How do they shape inventors’ behavior? What are the implications for follow-on innovation and diffusion of new technology?
We had presentations of the latest research on these topics and more, including a panel discussion with academic and industry experts on patent prosecution, at TPRI’s fifth annual IP Days conference, July 29-30, 2021.
Agenda
Thursday, July 29
(All times Eastern Daylight Time)
Introduction (9.45 – 10.00am)
Panel 1: Welcome to IP Days 2021 (10.00 – 11.00am) (video)
- Megan MacGarvie (BU), John McKeon (BU), and Jeremy Watson (Minnesota) – “It was Fifty Years Ago Today: Recording Copyright Term and the Supply of Music”
- Charu Gupta (Wharton) – “One Product, Many Patents: Imperfect Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceutical Industry”
- Discussant: Bhaven Sampat (Columbia)
Panel 2: Quality of Disclosure in US Patents (11.30am – 12.30pm) (video)
- Uwe Dulleck (QUT), Adam B. Jaffe (QUT and NBER), Nancy Kong (Queensland University of Technology), Shupeng Sun (Queensland Treasury) & Sowmya Vajjala (National Research Council) – “Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure: Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents”
- Travis Dyer (Cornell), Stephen Glaeser (UNC), Mark Lang (UNC) & Caroline Sprecher (UNC) – “The Effect of Patent Disclosure Quality on Innovation”
- Discussant: Andy Toole (USPTO)
Panel 3: Technology Diffusion (1.00 – 2.00pm) (video)
- Boyan Jovanovic (NYU) and Zhu Wang (FRB – Richmond) – “Idea Diffusion and Property Rights”
- Alan Jaske (Duke) – “Learning and the Timing of New Technology Adoption”
- Discussant: Matt Mitchell (Toronto)
Friday, July 30
Panel 4: Standard Essential Patents (10.00 – 11.30am) (video)
- Mark Lemley (Stanford Law) and Carl Shapiro (Berkeley) – “The Role of Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup”
- Cesare Righi (Pompeu Fabra) and Timothy Simcoe (BU) – “Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents? Strategic Continuation Practice at the USPTO”
- Christian Helmers (Santa Clara), Yassine Lefouili (Toulouse), and Brian Love (Santa Clara Law) – “Do Standard-Essential Patent Owners Behave Opportunistically? Evidence from U.S. District Court Dockets”
- Discussant: Jorge Padilla (Compass Lexecon)
Panel 5: Patent Prosecution – Process, Strategies and Outcomes (12.00pm – 1.30pm) (video)
- Abhay Aneja (Berkeley Law), Oren Reshef (WashU), and Gauri Subramani (Lehigh) – “Try, Try, Try Again? Persistence and the Gender Innovation Gap”
- Mark Schankerman (LSE) and Florian Schuett (Tilburg) – “Patent Screening, Innovation, and Welfare”
- Janet Freilich (Fordham Law) and Soomi Kim (MIT Sloan) – “Is the Patent System Sensitive to Information Quality?“
- Discussant: Alan Marco (Georgia Tech)
Panel 6: Patent Prosecution Practitioner Panel (2.00 – 3.00pm) (video)
- Dennis Crouch (Missouri Law)
- Carolyn Elmore (Elmore Patent Law Group)
- Jeff Kuhn (UNC)
- John Mulgrew (Lenovo)
- Moderator: Mike Meurer (BU)