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Conference presentations
FRIDAY, May 3, 2019
SOFITEL BRUSSELS LE LOUISE
8.00 Registration
8.30 Welcome and Introduction
Nicolas Petit
Bowman Heiden
8.45 Keynote address
Stephen Haber
9.15 Panel 1: IoT: Royalty Setting and Patent Policy
How should royalties be apportioned in FRAND-enabled standards What role do regulatory agencies and the courts play in establishing royalty levels if markets or inter-firm negotiations fail? Will these determinations become more challenging with the massive growth of IoT and interconnectivity?
Moderator: Bowman Heiden
Presenters: Gunther Friedl and Christoph Ann| Complete Paper
Alexander Galetovic and Stephen Haber|Complete Paper
Discussants: Jonathan Barnett
10.45 Break
11.00 Panel 2: Autonomous Vehicles: Changing Markets, Business Models and Institutions?
How will the advent of autonomous vehicle technology alter the structure of markets, open up for new business opportunities, and challenge current institutional foundations? What types of rules and regulations are necessary and appropriate for AV technologies? How will these developments affect the role of patents, standards development, knowledge transfer (e.g., open source programming, patent pools, public domain), and government?
Moderator: Keith Bergelt
Panelists: Monica Magnusson
Yann Ménière
Ruud Peters
Matthias Schneider
12.15 Lunch
13.30 Panel 3: Digital Platforms: Antitrust and Regulation
What is the role of antitrust agencies in regulating platform markets in the digital economy? Will the rise of the IoT pose new antitrust concerns? How should issues such as large multinational firms be approached? What is the threshold for “large”, “big” or “dominant”?
Moderator: Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel
Presenters: Nicolas Petit| Complete Paper
Alexandre de Streel|Complete Paper
Discussants: Luigi Zingales
15.00 Break
15.15 Panel 4: Globalization, Industrial Champions and 21st Century Protectionism
Is strict European competition policy limiting European firms from the scale necessary to compete on global markets with US and Chinese firms? Should the law require the definition of global markets in merger reviews so as to account for foreign competition? Should “industrial policy” standards be introduced in merger law? Should foreign State Owned Enterprises be limited in their ability to enter Western markets by way of strategic mergers with domestic firms?
Moderator: Richard Sousa
Panelists: Can Huang
Pascal Belmin
Justus Haucap
Paul Seabright
Jim Venit
16.30 Closing Remarks
17.00 Light Lunch
Presenters, Discussants and Moderators
Christoph Ann—Chair, Corporate and Intellectual Property Law, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich; Managing Board Member, Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC); Adjunct Professor, George Washington University Law School
Jonathan Barnett—Torry H. Webb Professor of Law and Director, Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Pascal Belmin—Head of EU Regulatory Affairs, Airbus
Keith Bergelt—CEO, Open Invention Network
Alexandre de Streel—Professor of European Law and Director, Research Centre for Information, Law and Society, University of Namur
Gunther Friedl—Dean and Chair of Management Accounting, TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich
Alexander Galetovic——Professor of economics, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile; visiting fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; instructor, Hoover IP² Summer Institute on the Economics and Politics of Innovation
Stephen Haber——Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, professor of political science, of history, and (by courtesy) of economics, Stanford University; director, Hoover IP²
Justus Haucap—Director, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Bowman Heiden——Co-director, Center for Intellectual Property (CIP), University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Norwegian University for Science and Technology; director, Impact Accelerator, Sahlgrenska School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Gothenburg; visiting fellow, Hoover Institution
Can Huang—Professor and Head of the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Co-Director of Institute for Intellectual Property Management, School of Management, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China)
Monica Magnusson—Vice President, IPR Policy and Communication, IPR & Licensing, Ericsson
Yann Ménière—Chief Economist, European Patent Office
Ruud Peters—CEO, Peters IP Consultancy B.V.
Nicolas Petit—Professor of law, University of Liege (Belgium); research professor, University of South Australia; visiting scholar, Hoover Institution
Matthias Schneider——Chief Licensing Officer, Audi
Paul Seabright——Professor, Toulouse School of Economics; Director, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Richard Sousa——Research fellow, Hoover Institution; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee
Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel—Professor of Law, University of Liège
James S. Venit—Partner, Dentons (Brussels)
Luigi Zingales—Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Director, George J. Stigler Center, and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
