Antitrust, Standard Essential Patents,
and the Fallacy of the Anticommons Tragedy:
Legal, and Industrial Policy Concerns
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Co-hosted by:
Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital
and
Berkeley Technology Law Journal
S480 – Executive Education Classroom
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Conference Presentations
1. Kayvan Noroozi (with Richard Epstein): “The FRAND Contract: Quid pro quoi? Why Incentives for “Efficient Infringement” Threaten to Dismantle the FRAND Framework, and Why We Should Care”.
2. Stephen Haber (with Alexander Galetovic): “The Fallacies of Patent Holdup Theory”
3. David Kappos (with Paul Michel) “The Smallest Salable Patent-Pricing Unit: Observations on its Origins, Development and Future”
4. Ron Katznelson “The IEEE Controversial Policy on Standard Essential Patents- The Empirical Record Since Adoption”
5. Art Nutter: “Patent Book”
6. Jonathan Barnett “Has the Academy Led Patent Law Astray?”
7. Kirti Gupta: “Standard Development and Standard Setting”
8. David Teece : Closing Remarks
Agenda
This symposium aims to bring together scholars who are interested in empirical issues with respect to the economic benefits and costs attached to standards essential patents.
9:00 am Coffee
9:30 am Welcome
David Teece, Director, Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital
9:35 am Session 1
Presenters: Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago; Stephen Haber, Stanford University
10:50 am BREAK
11:00 am Session 2
Presenters: David Kappos, former Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Alan Marco, Chief economist, US Patent and Trademark Office
Ron D. Katznelson, president, Bi-Level Technologies
12:40 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm Session 3
Presenters: Jonathan Barnett, University of Southern California; Kirti Gupta, Director, Qualcomm; David Teece
2:40 pm Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks
Discussion led by David Teece
3:00 pm Mt. Beautiful Wine Tasting & Social Hour