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NOTE: Attendance is by invitation only


THURSDAY, January 10, 2019
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105)
Lou Henry Hoover Building, Stanford University

8:00 a.m.Breakfast Buffet

8:30 a.m.Introduction and Setting the Stage: Stephen Haber


9:15 a.m.Session 1: 5G Technology
Moderator: Lew Zaretzki
Kirti Gupta
Chris Lubeck
Luke McLeroy
Robin Stitzing


10:30 a.m. Break


11:00 a.m.Session 2: Autonomous Vehicles
Moderator: Ken Seddon
Iain Cunningham
Zaki Fasihuddin
Jeff Fisher
Jason Skinder


12:15 a.m. Lunch


1:00 p.m.Session 3: Calculating Royalties
Moderator: Nicolas Petit
Jorge Contreras|Complete Paper
Alexander Galetovic|Complete Paper
Discussant: Lisa Ouellette


2:30 p.m.Session 4: Data Integrity: Personal Privacy, Security, and Risk
Moderator: Richard Sousa
Rebecca Crootof
Amit Seru
Alex Stamos


3:30 p.m.Break


3:45 p.m.Session 5: Pricing
Moderator: Bo Heiden
Wesley R. Hartmann|Complete Paper
Discussant: Chirantan Chatterjee


5:00 p.m.Daytime sessions close


FRIDAY, January 11, 2019
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105)
Lou Henry Hoover Building

8:00 a.m.Breakfast Buffet


8:30 a.m.Session 6: Government’s Role
Moderator: Stephen Haber
David Kappos
Scott Kieff
Michelle Lee
Josh Wright


9:45 a.m.Session 7: Government: Lobbying and International Regulation
Moderator: David Brady
Judy Goldstein
Andy Hall


10:45 a.m.Break

11:00 a.m.Session 8: Liability and Safety
Moderator: Robert Rabin
Richard Epstein|Complete Paper
Eric Talley|Complete Paper


12:15 p.m.Concluding Remarks: Stephen Haber


12:30 p.m.Light Lunch


Presenters, Discussants and Moderators

Bryan K. Bollinger——Assistant professor of Marketing, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

David Brady——Davies Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Chirantan Chatterjee——Associate professor in business policy and economic and ICICI Bank Chair in Strategic Management, Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) and national fellow, Hoover Institution (2018–19)

Jorge Contreras——Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Rebecca Crootof——Executive Director, Information Society Project, and Clinical Lecturer and Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School

Iain Cunningham——Vice president-Intellectual Property and Cybersecurity, NVIDIA

Richard Epstein——Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Zaki Fasihuddin——CEO, Volvo Cars Ventures

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

Judith L. Goldstein——Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communications and chair, Department of Political Science; Kaye University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University

Kirti Gupta——Vice President-Technology and Economic Strategy, Qualcomm

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

Andy Hall—Associate professor, department of political science, Stanford University

Wesley Hartmann——Professor of marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business; member, Steering Committee, Hoover IP²

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

David Kappos——Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; undersecretary, US Department of Commerce, and director, US Patent and Trademark Office (2009–2013)

F. Scott Kieff—-Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor, George Washington University Law School; member, Hoover IP2 Steering Committee; commissioner, US International Trade Commission (2013–2017)

Michelle Lee——Board member, Alarm.com; board member, Nauto, Inc.; Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law, Stanford Law School (2017–2018); Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and director, US Patent and Trademark Office (2014– 2017)

Chris Lubeck——Associate general counsel and chief IP counsel, Tesla

Luke McLeroy——Vice President-Business Development, Avanci

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette——Associate professor of law and Justin M. Roach Jr. Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School

Nicolas Petit—Professor of law, University of Liege (Belgium); research professor, University of South Australia; visiting scholar, Hoover Institution

Robert L. Rabin——A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Jeff Risher——Vice president-Product, Technology & IP Strategy, Faraday Future

Ken Seddon——CEO/president, LOT Network

Amit Seru——Senior fellow, Hoover Institution; professor of finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business; senior fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Richard Sousa——Research fellow, Hoover Institution; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Alex Stamos——Visiting fellow, Hoover Institution; adjunct professor, Freeman Spogli Institute;William J. Perry Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Robin Stitzing——Head of economic research, Patents, Nokia

Eric Talley——Isidor & Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and co-director, Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, Columbia Law School

Joshua Wright——Professor of law, Antonin Scalia Law School, executive director, Global Antitrust Institute, and professor of economics (by courtesy), George Mason University; commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission (2013–2015)

Lew Zaretzki—Managing director, Hamilton IPV

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