8.30h-9.15h

Registration

9.15h-9.30h

Welcome by the EPIP Coordinators
Dominique Foray (IMRI and OECD) and Jacques Mairesse (CREST and NBER)

Keynote Statements and Plenary Discussion
Manuel Desantes (European Patent Office)
Ciaran McGinley (European Patent Office)
The Design of the IP System in Europe – The Classical Model and Alternatives

Paul A. David (Stanford University and Oxford University)

10.30h-11.00h

Coffee Break

Plenary Presentation 1
David Encaoua (EUREQua, CNRS & University Paris I), Dominique Guellec (OECD) and Catalina Martinez (OECD)

The economics of patents: from natural rights to policy instruments

Discussant: Dietmar Harhoff (University of Munich)

12.00h-13.00h

Parallel Sessions I (A and B)

Session IA
Chair: Thorsten Teichert (University of Bern)

Knut Blind and Jakob Edler (ISI Karlsruhe)
Idiosyncracies of the Software Development Process and their Relation to Software Patents: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Evidence

Discussant: Volker Jordan (Weickmann & Weickmann)

Bronwyn H. Hall (University of California at Berkeley)
Business Method Patents in the United States

Discussant: Joshua Lerner (Harvard Business School and NBER)

Session IB
Chair: Manuel Trajtenberg (Tel Aviv University and NBER)

Peter Hingley and Marc Nicolas (EPO)
Methods for Forecasting Numbers of Patent Applications at the European Patent Office

Discussant: Pierre Mohnen (MERIT and University of Maastricht)

Gerhard Dikta (Fachhochschule Aachen)
Time series methods to forecast patent filings

Discussant: Jacques Mairesse (CREST and NBER)

13.00h-14.00h

LUNCH

Plenary Presentation 2
Joshua Lerner (Harvard Business School)

Patent Policy and Innovation over 150 Years

Discussant: Dominique Guellec (OECD)

15.00h-16.00h

Parallel Sessions II (A and B)

Session IIA
Chair: Dominique Foray (IMRI and OECD)

Susana Borrás (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Governing the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights’ Regime: From market failures to government failures?

Discussant: Irina Dezhina (Moscow)

Dominique Foray (IMRI and OECD) and Shyama V. Ramani (University of Grenoble)
Knowledge products and knowledge artifacts: what kind of protection do they need?

Discussant: Alfonso Gambardella (S. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa).

Session IIB
Chair: Peter Hingley (European Patent Office)

Myriam Mariani MERIT, University of Maastricht and University of Camerino, Pisa (Italy)
What determines technological hits? Geography and firm competencies in biotechnology vs. “traditional” chemicals

Discussant: Carolin Socher (University of Munich)

Jacques Mairesse (INSEE-CREST) and Pierre Mohnen (MERIT and University of Maastricht)
R&D and productivity: the role of patents

Discussant: Manuel Trajtenberg (Tel Aviv University and NBER)

16.00h-16.30h

Coffee Break

16.30h-17.30h

Chair: Bronwyn H. Hall (University of California at Berkeley and NBER)

Plenary Presentation 3
Brian Kahin (Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)
Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy

Discussant: Adam B. Jaffe (Brandeis University and NBER)

17.30h

End of First Conference Day/Announcements

19.00h

Conference Dinner – A Bavarian Evening at the Hofbräuhaus

9.30h-10.30h

Chair: Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim)

Plenary Presentation 4
Jean O. Lanjouw (University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development)

Beyond TRIPS: A New Global Patent System for Pharmaceuticals

Discussant: Shyama V. Ramani (University of Grenoble)

10.30h-11.00h

Coffee Break

11.00h-12.00h

Parallel Sessions III (A and B)

Session IIIA
Chair: David Encaoua (EUREQua, CNRS & University Paris I)

Timo Goeschl (University of Cambridge, UK) and Timothy Swanson (University College London, UK)
Pests, Plagues and Patents

Discussant: Konrad Stahl (University of Mannheim and CEPR)

Claude Henry (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Genes and the Patent Mechanism

Session IIIB
Chair: Jean O. Lanjouw (University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development)

Dieter Stauder (CEIPI Strasbourg and EPO)
Patent Litigation in Europe – Status Quo and New Developments

Discussant: Katrin Cremers (ZEW Mannheim)

Michael Lehmann (University of Munich)
New Copyright Law in the Digital World

Discussant: Christopher Heath (MPI Munich)

12.00h-13.00h

Chair: Brian Kahin (University of Michigan)

Plenary Presentation 5
Gerald Spindler (University of Göttingen)
The European Legal Framework for Software Patents

13.00h-14.00h

LUNCH

14.00h-15.00h

Chair:  Jacques Mairesse (CREST and NBER)

Plenary Presentation 6
James Bessen and Robert M. Hunt
An Empirical Look at Software Patents

Discussant: Joachim Henkel (University of Munich)

15.00h-15.15h

Coffee Break

15.15h-16.45h

Panel Discussion - New Challenges to the Patent System

Moderator: Dominique Foray (IMRI and OECD)

Participants:

Manuel Desantes (European Patent Office)

Adam B. Jaffe (Brandeis University and NBER)

Dominique Guellec (OECD)

Brian Kahin (University of Michigan)

Michael Lehmann (University of Munich)

16.45h-17.00h

Concluding Comments – Dietmar Harhoff and Dominique Foray