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Thursday, September 7, 2006
Conference Venue: European Patent Office, Munich
8.15h-9.00h Registration
9.00h-9.30h Plenary Meeting
Welcome by the EPIP President
Jacques Mairesse (CREST-ENSAE and NBER)
Welcome by the Hosting Organization
Wolfram Förster (Head of Controlling Office EPO)
Welcome by the Organizer
Dietmar Harhoff (University of Munich and CEPR)
9.30h-10.30h Plenary Presentation 1– Software Patents (1)
Chair and Moderator: Jacques Mairesse (CREST-ENSAE and NBER)
Reto Hilty (Max Planck Institute for IP, Competition and Tax Law)
Software Patents?
Bronwyn Hall (University of California at Berkeley)
The Private Value of Software Patents
10.30h-10.55h Coffee Break
10.55h-11.55h Plenary Presentation 2
Chair and Moderator: Dominique Guellec (OECD)
Alfonso Gambardella (Università L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy)
The Value of Patents
Paul A. David (Stanford University and University of Oxford)
Using IPR to Expand the Research Common for Science: New Moves in ‘Legal Jujitsu’ (Presentation)
11.55h-12.00h Break
12.00h-13.00h Parallel Sessions I (A, B and C)
Session IA – Room 102
Chair: Peter Lotz (Copenhagen Business School)
Alberto Galasso (London School of Economics)
Cross-License Agreements in the Semiconductor Industry: Waiting to Persuade?
Paola Giuri (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy)
The Market for Patents in Europe
Discussant: Chris Dent
Session IB – Room 103
Chair: Stefan Wagner (University of Munich)
Pia Weiss (Chemnitz University of Technology)
Global Patent Races and National Patent Policy — On the Optimal Non–Obviousness Standard
Georg von Graevenitz (University of Munich)
Jostling for advantage - why do firms enter patent portfolio races?
Discussant: Cédric Schneider
Session IC – Room 128
Chair: Joachim Henkel (Technical University of Munich)
Roger Svensson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden)
Commercialization of Patents and External Financing during the R&D-Phase
Andreas Panagopoulos (University of Lancaster)
Patents, Buyouts and Venture Capital in Sequential Innovation
Discussant: Elisabeth Müller
13.00h-14.00h Lunch
14.00h-15.30h Plenary Presentation 3 – Quality Issues in the Patent System
Chair and Moderator: Dietmar Harhoff (University of Munich)
Alison Brimelow (President-Elect, EPO)
Joseph Straus (MPI for Intellectual Property, Tax and Competition Law)
Dominique Guellec (OECD, Paris)
15.30h-16.30h Parallel Sessions II (A, B and C)
Session IIA – Room 102
Chair: Bruno van Pottelsberghe (EPO)
Myriam Mariani (Università L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy)
“Stacking” or “Picking” Patents? The Inventors’ Choice Between Quantity and Quality
Karin Hoisl (University of Munich)
Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity
Discussant: Jesse Giummo
Session IIB – Room 103
Chair: Ciaran McGinley (EPO)
Marcella Favale (University of Nottingham)
Fair DRM: Can Digital Locks Be Persuaded To Respect Copyright Exceptions?
Tobias Regner (Imperial College London)
Governance of Digital Content in the Era of Mass Participation
Discussant: Arnold Picot
Session IIC – Room 128
Chair: Alfonso Gambardella (Università L. Bocconi)
Joachim Henkel (Technical University of Munich)
On Sharks, Trolls, and Their Patent Prey - ”Being Infringed” as a Normatively Induced Innovation Exploitation Strategy
Elisabeth Müller (ZEW Mannheim)
The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies´ Patent Portfolios: First Results
Discussant: Fabio Montobbio
16.30h-17.00h Coffee Break
17.00h-18.00h Plenary Presentation 4
Chair and Moderator: Pierre Mohnen (UNU-MERIT)
Eric Maskin (Princeton University)
Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation
18.00h End of First Conference Day/Announcements
18.15h-19.15h EPIP Association – General Assembly
20.00h Conference Dinner – A Bavarian Evening at the Hofbräuhaus
Friday, September 8, 2006
Conference Venue: European Patent Office, Munich
9.00h-10.30h Plenary Presentation 5 – Software Patents (2)
Chair and Moderator: Bronwyn Hall (University of California at Berkeley)
Mark Schankerman (London School of Economics)
Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation
Laurent Manderieux & Maria Lillà Montagnani (Università L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy)
Exclusionary Innovation: How to Avoid Innovation to be Stifled - Remedies Identified for the Software Sector
Michel Vivant (Université Montpellier)
Legal Situation for Software Patenting in Europe
10.30h-11.00h Coffee Break
11.00h-12.00h Parallel Sessions III (A, B and C)
Session IIIA – Room 102
Chair: Dominique Guellec (OECD)
Paul Jensen (University of Melbourne)
Patent Examination Decisions and Strategic Trade Behavior
Cédric Schneider (CEBR, Copenhagen Business School)
The determinants of patent applications outcomes - Does experience matter?
Discussant: Stefan Wagner
Session IIIB – Room 103
Chair: Ansgar Ohly (University of Bayreuth)
Julio Robledo (University of Vienna)
The Effect of Litigation on Intellectual Property and Welfare
Katrin Cremers (ZEW Mannheim)
Determinants of Duration of Patent Trials
Discussant: Georg von Graevenitz
Session IIIC – Room 128
Chair: Virginia Melgar (EPO)
Chris Dent (Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia)
Intersection of Economic and Legal Frameworks for Optimisation of IPR: The Case of Experimental Use Exception
Leo Giannotti (EPO, Munich)
Rate and Direction of European Patenting, (Presentation)
Discussant: Pia Weiss
12.05-12.30h Plenary Meeting
Chair: Jacques Mairesse (President, EPIP Association)
Keynote Speech Alain Pompidou (President, European Patent Office)
12.30h-13.30h Lunch
13.30h-14.30h Parallel Sessions IV (A, B and C)
Session IVA – Room 102
Chair: Susanna Borras (Roskilde University)
Fabio Montobbio (Università L. Bocconi, Milan, Italy)
Inventorship Attribution in Academic Patents: Quantitative Analysis of Patent-Publication Pairs
Peter Lotz (Copenhagen Business School)
Academic-Business Cooperations in Biotechnology: Who Cooperates with Firms, and Why
Discussant: Alberto Galasso
Session IVB – Room 103
Chair: Bronwyn Hall (University of California at Berkeley)
Blandine Laperche (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale)
Industrial Property Rights In China: Incentives to Innovate or to Invest?
Mary Habib (Lebanese American University – Byblos, Lebanon)
Appropriate Patent Scope for Developing Countries - A New Empirical Approach
Discussant: Paul Jensen
Session IVC – Room 128
Chair: Pierre Mohnen (UNU-MERIT)
Geertrui van Overwalle (University Leuven)
Managing Patent Rights in the Genetic Sector. Testing the Patent Pool and the Clearing House Model
Fabio Thiers (MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation)
Intellectual Property Rights and the Globalization of Clinical Trials for Medicines
Discussant: Paola Giuri
14.30h-16.00h Plenary Presentation 6 – Intellectual Property Law under Siege
Chair and Moderator: Bertrand Warusfel (Université Lille 2)
Alain Strowel (Université de Liège) – Changes and Criticism in the Copyright Area
Jean-Christophe Galloux (Université Paris 2) - Changes and Criticism in the Patent Area
Discussant: Paul David (Stanford University and University of Oxford)
16.00h-16.30h Coffee Break
16.30h-17.30h Plenary Presentation 7 - Patent Citation Data and Applications
Chair and Moderator: Jacques Mairesse (CREST-ENSAE and NBER)
Dietmar Harhoff (University of Munich)
European Patent Citations – How to Count and How to Interpret Them?
Bruno van Pottelsberghe (EPO, Munich)
A Contribution to the Patent Valuation Literature
17.30h-17.45h Concluding Comments
Jacques Mairesse (President of EPIP)
Dietmar Harhoff (Conference Organizer)
