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Conference presentations
THURSDAY, January 11, 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
9:15 a.m.“Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Preferences” by Elizabeth Hoffman, David Schwartz, Matthew Spitzer, and Eric Talley
Presenter: Matthew Spitzer
Discussants: Adam Ullman and Seth Werfel
Moderator: Damon Matteo
Complete Paper
10:30 a.m.Break
11:00 a.m.“Space Race Technology and the Impact on Jobs in U.S. Cities” by Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley
Presenter: Shawn Kantor
Discussants: Ross Levine and Kirti Gupta
Moderator: Stephen Haber
Complete Paper
12:15 p.m.Lunch
Room 115, Lou Henry Hoover Building
1:15 p.m.“The Demographics of IP” by Richard Sousa
Presenter: Richard Sousa
Discussants: Jonathan Barnett and Irv Rappaport
Moderator: Ben Kwitek
Complete Paper
2:30 p.m.Break
3:00 p.m.“Citation Weighting, Patent Ranking, and Apportionment of Value for Standard- Essential Patents” by Gregory Sidak and Jeremy Skog
Presenters: Jeremy Skog
Discussants: Alexander Galetovic and Kayvan Noroozi
Moderator: Ali Torabi
Complete Paper
4:15 p.m.Daytime sessions close
FRIDAY, January 12, 2018
Annenberg Conference Room (Room 105)
Lou Henry Hoover Building
8:30 a.m.Breakfast Buffet
9:00 a.m. “Patent Litigation, Uncertainty, and Patent Quality” by Alan Marco and Richard Miller
Presenter: Alan Marco
Discussants: Christian Helmers and Ron Laurie
Moderator: Richard Epstein
10:15 a.m.Break
10:45 a.m.“Who Reads Patents?” by Lisa Ouellette
Presenter: Lisa Ouellette
Discussants: Scott Kieff and Naomi Lamoreaux
Moderator: Richard Sousa
Complete Paper
12:00 NoonAdjourn (light lunch available)
Room 115, Lou Henry Hoover Building
Jonathan Barnett—Professor of law and director, Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California
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
Alexander Galetovic—Professor of economics, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile; visiting fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Kirti Gupta—Director for Economic Strategy, Qualcomm Inc.
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
Christian Helmers—Assistant professor, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
Elizabeth Hoffman—Professor of economics, Iowa State University; senior distinguished fellow, Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth, Northwestern University; president emerita, University of Colorado System
Shawn Kantor—L. Charles Hilton Jr. Distinguished Professor of Economic Prosperity and Individual Opportunity, Florida State University; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
F. Scott Kieff—Senior fellow, Hoover Institution; Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor, George Washington University Law School; commissioner, US International Trade Commission (2013–2017); member, Hoover IP2 Steering Committee
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, NBER; member, Hoover IP2 Steering Committee
Ron Laurie—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
Alan Marco—Associate professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Damon Matteo—CEO, Fulcrum Strategy; member of the Board, Tsinghua University (Beijing) Law School, Center for Intellectual Property Law; member, Hoover IP² Advisory Board
Kayvan Bakhtiari Noroozi—Principal, Noroozi PC; president and CEO, Koios Pharmaceuticals
Lisa Ouellette—Associate professor, Stanford Law School
Irving Rappaport—Managing director, IP Checkups, Inc.
David Schwartz—Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University
Gregory Sidak—Founder and chairman, Criteron Economics, LLC
Jeremy Skog—Vice president, Criteron Economics, LLC
Richard Sousa—Research fellow, Hoover Institution; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee
Matthew L. Spitzer—Howard and Elizabeth Chapman Professor of Law and director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University
Eric Talley—Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Ali Torabi—Director of Corporate Development, Solar Junction Corporation
Adam Ullman—President, CEO, and general counsel, Shoe Care Innovations, Inc.; consultant, IP strategy, product development and commercialization, PDCIP, LLC
Seth Werfel—PhD student, department of political science, Stanford University
Alexander Whalley—Associate professor, department of economics, University of Calgary