{"id":2104,"date":"2021-05-21T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/?page_id=2104"},"modified":"2021-11-05T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:59:14","slug":"ip-days-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tpri\/news-and-events\/ip-days-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"IP Days 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tpri\/files\/2020\/04\/788d01381346d8d72b9e73e72f18-1583845-e1588276147716-636x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"197\" class=\"wp-image-1759 alignright\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Thursday and Friday,<br \/>\nJuly 29-30, 2021<br \/>\nHosted virtually by TPRI @ BU Law<\/h4>\n<p>Intellectual property rights provide incentives to innovate, but those incentives depend crucially on the administrative and legal processes that determine the scope of inventors\u2019 rights. How well do administrative processes like patent examination work? How do they shape inventors\u2019 behavior? What are the implications for follow-on innovation and diffusion of new technology?<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">We had presentations of the latest research on these topics and more, including a <span>panel discussion with academic and industry experts on patent prosecution<\/span>, at TPRI\u2019s fifth annual IP Days conference, July 29-30, 2021.<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Agenda<\/h3>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<h3>Thursday, July 29<\/h3>\n<h4>(All times Eastern Daylight Time)<\/h4>\n<h4>Introduction (9.45 &#8211; 10.00am)<\/h4>\n<h4>Panel 1: Welcome to IP Days 2021 (10.00 &#8211; 11.00am) (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/media\/t\/1_a6dijhnd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a><\/span>)<\/h4>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Megan MacGarvie (BU),\u00a0 John McKeon (BU), and Jeremy Watson (Minnesota) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"\/tpri\/files\/2021\/07\/MMW.pdf\">It was Fifty Years Ago Today: Recording Copyright Term and the Supply of Music<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Charu Gupta (Wharton) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"\/tpri\/files\/2021\/07\/Gupta-ImperfectIP-v20210720.pdf\">One Product, Many Patents: Imperfect Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceutical Industry<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Discussant: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publichealth.columbia.edu\/people\/our-faculty\/bns3\">Bhaven Sampat<\/a> (Columbia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Panel 2: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Quality of Disclosure in US Patents <\/strong><\/span>(11.30am &#8211; 12.30pm)\u00a0(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/media\/t\/1_tmuqrqkf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a><\/span>)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uwe Dulleck (QUT)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adam B. Jaffe (QUT and NBER)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nancy Kong (Queensland University of Technology),<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shupeng Sun (Queensland Treasury)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &amp; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sowmya Vajjala<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (National Research Council) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w27803\">Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure: Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Travis Dyer (Cornell), Stephen Glaeser (UNC), Mark Lang (UNC) &amp; Caroline Sprecher (UNC) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3711128\">The Effect of Patent Disclosure Quality on Innovation<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Discussant: Andy Toole (USPTO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Panel 3: Technology Diffusion (1.00 &#8211; 2.00pm) (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/media\/t\/1_z0uxl9p9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a><\/span>)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Boyan Jovanovic (NYU) and Zhu Wang (FRB &#8211; Richmond) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w28019\">Idea Diffusion and Property Rights<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Alan Jaske (Duke) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3527110\">Learning and the Timing of New Technology Adoption<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Discussant: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rotman.utoronto.ca\/FacultyAndResearch\/Faculty\/FacultyBios\/MitchellM\">Matt Mitchell<\/a> (Toronto)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Friday, July 30<\/h3>\n<h4>Panel 4: <strong>Standard Essential Patents (<\/strong>10.00 &#8211; 11.30am) (<a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/media\/t\/1_fgkclt93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">video<\/span><\/a>)<\/h4>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark Lemley (Stanford Law) and Carl Shapiro (Berkeley) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.haas.berkeley.edu\/shapiro\/patentholdup.pdf\">The Role of Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cesare Righi (Pompeu Fabra) and Timothy Simcoe (BU) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3627775\">Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents? Strategic Continuation Practice at the USPTO<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christian Helmers (Santa Clara), Yassine Lefouili (Toulouse), and Brian Love (Santa Clara Law)\u00a0 &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727085\">Do Standard-Essential Patent Owners Behave Opportunistically? Evidence from U.S. District Court Dockets<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Discussant: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.compasslexecon.com\/professionals\/jorge-padilla\/\">Jorge Padilla<\/a> (Compass Lexecon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Panel 5: <strong>Patent Prosecution &#8211; Process, Strategies and Outcomes (<\/strong>12.00pm &#8211; 1.30pm) (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/media\/t\/1_2cya0jzq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a><\/span>)<\/h4>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abhay Aneja (Berkeley Law), Oren Reshef (WashU), and Gauri Subramani (Lehigh) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"\/tpri\/files\/2021\/07\/GSubramani_Try_try_try721.pdf\">Try, Try, Try Again? Persistence and the Gender Innovation Gap<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Mark Schankerman (LSE) and Florian Schuett (Tilburg) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3697422\">Patent Screening, Innovation, and Welfare<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Janet Freilich (Fordham Law) and Soomi Kim (MIT Sloan) &#8211; \u201c<a href=\"\/tpri\/files\/2021\/05\/Freilich_Kim_Information-Quality.pdf\">Is the Patent System Sensitive to Information Quality?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Discussant: <a href=\"https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/alan-marco\">Alan Marco<\/a> (Georgia Tech)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Panel 6: <strong>Patent Prosecution Practitioner Panel (2.00 &#8211; 3.00pm) (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mymedia.bu.edu\/media\/t\/1_azwm7j6p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a><\/span>)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/law.missouri.edu\/person\/dennis-d-crouch\/\">Dennis Crouch<\/a> (Missouri Law)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu\/faculty\/directory\/jeffrey-kuhn\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmorepatents.com\/Profs.cshtml?id=1\">Carolyn Elmore<\/a> (Elmore Patent Law Group)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu\/faculty\/directory\/jeffrey-kuhn\/\">Jeff Kuhn<\/a> (UNC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theorg.com\/org\/lenovo\/org-chart\/john-mulgrew\">John Mulgrew<\/a> (Lenovo)<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Moderator: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/michael-j-meurer\/\">Mike Meurer<\/a> (BU)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019 rights. 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