From Trolls to Thickets: The Patent System and the US Economy

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Jonathan M. Barnett–Professor of law, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California

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 Steering Committee

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

A.J. Gokcek–Intellectual property service attorney, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Kirti Gupta—Director of economic strategy, Qualcomm Inc.

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

Kyle Herkenhoff– Assistant professor, University of Minnesota; visiting scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

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

Lucy Koh­–District judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Benjamin Kwitek—President and CEO, InterForm Incorporate; member, Hoover IP2 Advisory Board

Ross Levine–Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; member, Hoover IP2 Steering Committee

Damon Matteo—CEO, Fulcrum Strategy; member of the Board, Tsinghua University (Beijing) Law School, Center for Intellectual Property Law; member, Hoover IP2 Advisory Board

Noel Maurer–Associate professor of international affairs and international business, George Washington University School of Business

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette—Assistant professor of law, Stanford Law School

Yi Qian—Associate professor, Marketing and Behavioral Science Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia; visiting associate professor of marketing and Kraft Research Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Peter B. Rossi–James Collins Professor of Marketing, Statistics, and Economics, Anderson School of Management, UCLA

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

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

Seth Werfel–PhD candidate, department of political science, Stanford University

Rosemarie Ziedonis–Associate professor of management, Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon; visiting scholar, Management Science and Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Stanford University