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HOOVER INSTITUTION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
FROM TROLLS TO THICKETS
THE PATENT SYSTEM AND THE US ECONOMY
A Conference of the Hoover IP2 Working Group
Agenda
Thursday–Friday, May 7–8, 2015
NOTE: Attendance is by invitation only
THURSDAY, May 7
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
9:15 A.M.
“From Patent Thickets to Patent Networks: The Legal Infrastructure of the Digital Economy”
by Jonathan M. Barnett
Presenter: Jonathan Barnett
Discussant: Noel Maurer
Moderator: Stephen Haber
10:30 A.M.
Break
10:45 A.M.
“Patents and the Economics Valuation of Product Features” by Greg M. Allenby, Jeff D.
Brazell, John R. Howell, and Peter B. Rossi
Presenter: Peter Rossi
Discussant: Ross Levine
Moderator: Scott Kieff
12:00 NOON
Lunch
Room 115, Lou Henry Hoover Building
THURSDAY, May 7
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105), Lou Henry Hoover Building
1:15 P.M.
“Why Do Inventors Sell to Patent Trolls? Experimental Evidence for the Asymmetry
Hypothesis” by Stephen H. Haber and Seth H. Werfel
Presenter: Seth Werfel
Discussant: Henry Smith
Moderator: Damon Matteo
2:30 P.M.
“The Role of Patent Law in the Innovation Cycle” by Richard E. Epstein
Presenter: Richard Epstein
Discussant: A.J. Gokcek
Moderator: Benjamin Kwitek
3:45 P.M.
Daytime sessions close
6:00 P.M.
Conference dinner (no formal program)
Vero Ristorante Italiano, 530 Bryant St., Palo Alto
FRIDAY, May 8
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105), Lou Henry Hoover Building
8:30 A.M.
Breakfast Buffet
9:00 A.M.
Judge Lucy Koh in conversation with Richard Sousa
9:45 A.M.
“Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation: Evidence from TRIPS” by Margaret
Kyle and Yi Qian
Presenter: Yi Qian
Discussant: Rosemarie Ziedonis
Moderator: Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
11:00 A.M.
“Royalty Stacking in the Smartphone Industry: An Empirical Examination” by Alexander
Galetovic and Kirti Gupta
Presenter: Alexander Galetovic
Discussant: Kyle Herkenhoff
Moderator: Richard Sousa
12:15 P.M.
Adjourn (light lunch available)
Room 115, Lou Henry Hoover Building
5/5/2015 1:22 PM
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FROM TROLLS TO THICKETS
THE PATENT SYSTEM AND THE US ECONOMY
A Conference of the Hoover IP2 Working Group
PRESENTERS, DISCUSSANTS, MODERATORS
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
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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 fellow, Hoover Institution; visiting scholar, management science and engineering department,
School of Engineering, Stanford University
NOTE: Attendance is by invitation only
www.hooverip2.org
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