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EVENTS
Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries
Software and Biotech
Date: Friday, April 30, 2004
Time: 11:00 AM — 3:00 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

The appropriate dimensions of protection for intellectual property rights in general, and patents in particular, have been matters of controversy since the 16th century. Software and biotechnology, both relatively new areas to come under the patent umbrella, have brought the debate to a fevered pitch in recent years. The Joint Center has invited leading scholars to illuminate the issues for these two industries, which are so closely identified with innovation in high technology.

 
Agenda

10:00 a.m.

Registration

10:15

Introduction

 

 

Welcome:

Robert W. Hahn, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

 

Panel I:

Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights

 

Presenters:

Iain Cockburn, Boston University

 

 

Arti Rai, Duke University

 

Discussant:

Wes Cohen, Duke University

Noon

Luncheon

 

 

Panel II:

Software and Intellectual Property Rights

 

Presenters:

David Mowery, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Dan Burk, University of Minnesota

 

Discussant:

Starling David Hunter, MIT

 

Moderator:

Scott Wallsten, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

2:00 p.m.

Adjournment

 
 
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