Patents and the Innovation Economy

NOTE: Attendance is by invitation only

 

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Iain Cockburn–Richard C. Shipley Professor in Management, Strategy and Innovation Department, School of Management, Boston University; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Rod Cooper–Principal, Protecting Assets of the Mind; member, Hoover Institution Board of Overseers; member, Hoover Institution Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity Working Group (Hoover IP2) Advisory Board

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

Alexander Galetovic–Professor of economics, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile

Stephen Haber–Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; director, Hoover IP2 Working Group; 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

Stephen Johnson–Chief intellectual property and policy officer, One Mind for Research

David Kappos–Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP; former under secretary of commerce and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

B. Zorina Khan–Professor of economics, Bowdoin College; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts

F. Scott Kieff–Commissioner, US International Trade Commission; Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law (on leave), George Washington University

Naomi Lamoreaux–Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History, Yale University; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; member, Hoover IP2 Working Group Steering Committee

Mark Lemley–William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; director, Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology; founding partner, Durie Tangri LLP; founder and board member, Lex Machina, Inc.

Ross Levine–Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; member, Council on Foreign Relations; member, Hoover IP2 Working Group Steering Committee

Damon Matteo–Vice president and chief intellectual property officer, PARC, a Xerox company; chairman, US Patent & Trademark Office Advisory Board; member, Hoover IP2 Advisory Board

Joel Mokyr–Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of economics and history, Northwestern University; Sackler Professorial Fellow, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, University of Tel Aviv

Manuel Jose Molano Ruiz–Director General Adjuncto, Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (iMCO), Mexican City

Jorge Padilla–Senior managing director and head, Compass Lexecon Europe; research fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (Madrid); member of the steering committee, Association for Competition Economists

Troy A. Paredes–Member, Hoover IP2 Working Group Steering Committee; former commissioner, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Lauren Schoenthaler–Senior university counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Stanford University; member, Hoover IP2 Advisory Board

Henry Smith–Fessenden Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; director, Project on the Foundations of Private Law, Harvard University; member, Hoover IP2 Working Group Steering Committee

Richard Sousa–Senior associate director and research fellow, Hoover Institution; member, Hoover IP2 Working Group Steering Committee

Matthew Spitzer–Howard and Elizabeth Chapman Professor and director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University

Manuel Trajtenberg–Chair, Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education, Israel

Amy Zegart–Senior fellow and associate director, Hoover Institution; member, Hoover IP2 Working Group Steering Committee; co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University