10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF THE EPIP ASSOCIATION

Intellectual Property (IP) in the Creative Economy

GLASGOW, UK
SEPTEMBER 2-3, 2015

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CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, hosted the 10th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association (European Policy for Intellectual Property) in Glasgow, September 2-3, 2015.
Delegates interested in the economic, legal and political aspects of intellectual property rights explored the role of Intellectual Property (IP) in the Creative Economy, with a focus on copyright, data and the changing economics of the digital world.

  • LEAD TOPIC

    • INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) IN THE CREATIVE ECONOMY

  • FURTHER TOPICS

    IP and Economics of digitisation • IP and the digital single market • Copyright evidence and reform • Collecting societies • Big data (access, ownership, regulation) • Geographical indications • IP in pharmaceutical industry (supplementary protection) • Enforcement (preventive schemes in supply-side chain) • Standards and pools (standard essential patents, transparency in standardization) • Utility models, small patents • The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court • IP Litigation • IP and open innovation • IP and competition policy • IP and governance • IP and other incentives to innovate • IP and contract law • IP licensing • IP and science • IP and data protection • IP and measurement of intangible assets • IP and venture capital • Designs • Trade marks

  • PLENARY SESSIONS AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    • PLENARY SESSION 1 - “The Role of Disclosure in Patent Systems” - Yoshimi Okada (Hitotsubashi University), Sadao Nagaoka (Tokyo Keizai University), Stuart Graham (Georgia Tech), Dietmar Harhoff (Max-Planck-Institute)

    • PLENARY SESSION 2 - “Measuring the Creative Economy” - Chair: Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow) - Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London), Hasan Bakhshi (NESTA), Dimiter Gantchev (WIPO)

    • PLENARY SESSION 3 - “Access to Data (with chief economists)” - Chair: Tony Clayton (Imperial College London) - Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota) “Data Needs for Assessing the Function of Copyright“ - Responding: Nathan Wajsman (OHIM), Kamil Kiljanski (European Commission DG Internal Market & Industry), Pippa Hall (UK Intellectual Property Office), and Mosahid Khan (WIPO)

- Ian HARGREAVES 

(Cardiff University).
Digital Opportunity: A Review of IP and Growth, “Copyright Wars: Frozen Conflict?“

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- Petra MOSER 

(New York University), “Copyright and Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republica- tion Program“

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- Pamela SAMUELSON 

(University of California, Berkeley), 
“Evidence-based IP Policy-making: What’s that?”

 

- Richard WATT 

(SERCI and University of Canterbury)
“Copyright Collectives and Contracts: An Economic Theory Perspective”

Responding: MEP Julia Reda (Greens/EFA, Pirate Party)

Responding: Lionel Bently (Cambridge University)

 
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Chair: Ruth Towse (CREATe and Bournemouth University)
Responding: Sylvie Nérisson (Max-Planck Institute), Morten Hviid (University of East Anglia), Scott Walker (Performing Rights Society/UK Music)

  • CONFERENCE CHAIR