What Patents Really Do: Historical Perspectives on Current Debates

THURSDAY, May 17, 2018
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105)
Lou Henry Hoover Building, Stanford University

8:30 a.m.Breakfast Buffet

9:00 a.m.Welcome and Introduction: Stephen Haber and Naomi Lamoreaux

9:15 a.m.“National Innovation Systems in Europe and the United States: An Historical Perspective” by B. Zorina Khan
Presenter: B. Zorina Khan
Discussant: Michael Andrews
Moderator: Stephen Haber
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10:15 a.m.“Did James Watt’s patent(s) really delay the industrial revolution?” by Sean Bottomley
Presenter: Sean Bottomley
Discussant: Philip Hoffman
Moderator: Lew Zaretzki
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10:15 a.m.Break

11:45 a.m.“Ninth Circuit Nursery: Patent Litigation and Industrial Development on the
Pacific Coast, 1891-1925” by Steven W. Usselman
Presenter: Steven Usselman
Discussant: Paul Rhode
Moderator: Benjamin Kwitek
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12:45 p.m.Lunch

1:30 p.m.“Dousing the Fires of Patent Litigation” by Chris Beauchamp
Presenter: Chris Beauchamp
Discussant: Catherine Fisk
Moderator: Damon Matteo
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2:30 p.m.“A Brief Economic History of the Semiconductor Industry” by Alexander Galetovic
Presenter: Alexander Galetovic
Discussant: Wesley Hartmann
Moderator: Nicolas Petit
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4:00 p.m. “The Great Patent Grab” by Jonathan M. Barnett
Presenter: Jonathan Barnett
Discussant: Scott Masten
Moderator: Richard Sousa
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5:00 p.m.Daytime sessions close

FRIDAY, May 18, 2018
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105)
Lou Henry Hoover Building

8:30 a.m.Breakfast Buffet

9:00 a.m.“The Reliability of Government Sources as Evidence that Pioneer Patents Block Development” by Ron D. Katznelson and John Howells
Presenters: John Howells and Ron Katznelson
Discussant: Richard Epstein
Moderator: Henry Smith
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10:00 a.m.“The Long History of Software Patenting in the United States” by Gerardo Con Diaz
Presenter: Gerardo Con Diaz
Discussant: Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Moderator: Ron Laurie
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11:00 a.m.Break

11:30 a.m.““The Political Economy and Economic History of the Spanish Patent System” by Victor Menaldo
Presenter: Victor Menaldo
Discussant: Ross Levine
Moderator: Naomi Lamoreaux
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12:30 a.m.“Do Concluding Remarks: Stephen Haber and Naomi Lamoreaux

12:45 p.m.Light Lunch

Presenters, Discussants and Moderators

Michael Andrews——Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Jonathan Barnett——Professor of law and director, Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California

Christopher Beauchamp——Professor, Brooklyn Law School

Sean Bottomley——Research fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany

Gerardo Con Diaz——Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

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

Catherine Fisk——Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

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

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

Philip T. Hoffman—Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and professor of history, California Institute of Technology

John Howells——Associate Professor, Department of Management, Aarhus University

Ron D. Katznelson——President, Bi-Level Technologies

Zorina Khan—Professor of economics, Bowdoin College; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Benjamin Kwitek—President and CEO, InterForm Incorporated; instructor of entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Innovation Program, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; member, Hoover IP² Advisory Board

Naomi Lamoreaux—Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History and chair, department of history, Yale University; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Ron Laurie—Chairman, InventionShare; cofounder and managing director, Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC; director, WiLAN, Inc.; member, Hoover IP² Advisory Board

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

Scott Masten——Professor of business economics and public policy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

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

Victor Menaldo——Associate professor of political science, affiliated faculty at the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, affiliated faculty of Near and Middle Eastern studies, University of Washington; instructor, Hoover IP² Summer Institute on the Economics and Politics of Innovation

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette——Associate professor, Stanford Law School

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

Paul Rhode——Professor and chair, Department of Economics, University of Michigan; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

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

Steve Usselman——Professor, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Lew Zaretzki—Managing director, Hamilton IPV