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HOOVER INSTITUTION
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US PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
What is the Academy’s Role in
Evidence-based Policy Making for Intellectual Property?
Hoover IP2 Symposium
Hoover Institution
Johnson Center
1399 New York Ave., NW, 5th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
What Is the Academy’s Role in Evidence-based Policy Making for Intellectual Property?
Preliminary Agenda
2:00 P.M.
Welcome:
2:15 P.M.
The Edison Scholar Program at the USPTO: Results and Contributions
Panelists:
Joseph Bailey, University of Maryland
Deepak Hegde, New York University
Joshua Sarnoff, DePaul University
Moderator: Tim Simcoe, President’s Council of Economic Advisers and Boston University
3:30 P.M.
Break
3:45 P.M.
Roundtable: “How can the academy best contribute to IP policy?”
Panelists:
Stephen Haber, Hoover Institution and Stanford University
Jay Kesan, University of Illinois
Joshua Wright, US Federal Trade Commission and George Mason University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, University of Oregon and Hoover Institution
Moderator: F. Scott Kieff, US International Trade Commission and George Washington
University
5:00 P.M.
Cocktail Reception
Shira Perlmutter, US Patent and Trademark Office
Richard Sousa, Hoover Institution
What Is the Academy’s Role in Evidence-based Policy Making for Intellectual Property?
Participants
Joseph P. Bailey, Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO);
research associate professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland; executive director,
Quest Honors Program, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Stephen Haber, Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan
Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences; professor, political science, history, and (by courtesy)
economics, Stanford University; director, Hoover Institution Working Group on Intellectual Property,
Innovation, and Prosperity (Hoover IP2)
Deepak Hegde, Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar, USPTO; assistant professor of management and
organizations, Stern School of Business, NYU; Thomas Edison Innovation Fellow, George Mason University
School of Law, Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property; affiliate, CESifo Research Network,
University of Munich
Jay P. Kesan, professor, H. Ross & Helen Workman Research Scholar, and director of the Program in
Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Illinois College of Law
F. Scott Kieff, commissioner of the US International Trade Commission, Fred C. Stevenson Research
Professor (on leave), George Washington University Law School; formerly, Ray and Louise Knowles Senior
Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Alan Marco, chief economist, USPTO
Shira Perlmutter, chief policy officer and director for international affairs, USPTO
Joshua Sarnoff, Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar, USPTO; professor, College of Law, DePaul University
Tim Simcoe, senior economist, President’s Council of Economic Advisers; associate professor of strategy and
innovation (on leave), School of Management, Boston University; faculty research fellow, National Bureau of
Economic Research
Richard Sousa, research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; member, Hoover IP2 steering
committee
Joshua D. Wright, commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission; professor, School of Law, George Mason
University; professor (by courtesy) department of economics, George Mason University
Rosemarie Ziedonis, associate professor of management, Lundquist College of Business, University of
Oregon; visiting fellow (2015), Hoover Institution; visiting scholar, management science and engineering
department, School of Engineering, Stanford University
5/18/2015 3:55 PM
Hoover Institution Working Group on
Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity
www.hooverip2.org
United States Patent and Trademark Office
US Department of Commerce
www.uspto.gov