Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ EPIP 2 ] Copyright and database protection, patents and research tools, and other challenges to the intellectual property system

Maastricht, November 24-25

Venue:
University of Maastricht
Bouillonstraat 3 (feestzaal & salon)
Maastricht

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PROGRAMME

 

Sunday, November 23
19.00

Get together
Venue:
Restaurant Maison Du Chêne
Boschstraat 104-106
tel 043 321 3523

 
Monday, November 24
8.30-9.15 Registration
9.15-9.30 Conference opening
 
Research tools
Chair: Bronwyn Hall (University of Berkeley)
9.30-10.30

John Walsh (University of Illinois at Chicago and Tokyo University)
(joint paper with Ashish Arora and Wesley Cohen)
Research tool patenting and licensing and biomedical innovation
[abstract | paper | presentation]

  Discussant: Padmashree Gehl Sampath (UNU-INTECH)
10.30-11.30 Sandy Thomas (Nuffield Council of Bioethics)
Research tools in Genetics
[abstract | presentation]
  Discussant: Susana Borrás (Roskilde University)
11.30-12.00 coffee break
   
Databases
Chair: Paul David (Stanford University and Oxford University)
12.00-13.00 Paul Uhlir (National Academy of Sciences, USA)
Finding the right balance: An examination of issues in the legal and policy Framework for promoting e-science
[abstract | paper | presentation]
  Discussant: TBA
13.00-14.00 lunch
14.00-15.00 Peter Schröder (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands)
Access to digital research data from public funding: Parallel worlds of lawmaking, policymaking and research
[abstract | paper | presentation]
  Discussant: Wilfred Dolfsma (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
15.00-16.00 Bertrand Warusfel (Université Descartes-Paris V)
Legal protection of databases in Europe and public scientific research
[abstract | presentation]
  Discussant: Dominique Guellec (OECD)
16.00-16.30 coffee break
16.30-17.30 Stephen Maurer (University of California at Berkeley)
Database activism: New ways to do science (and maybe change the world)
[abstract | paper | presentation]
  Discussant: Robin Cowan (MERIT, University Maastricht)
17.30-18.30 Anselm Kamperman Sanders (University Maastricht)
Strategic use and adaptation of intellectual property rights systems in information and communications-based research
[abstract | paper | presentation]
  Discussant: Brian Kahin (Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)
[presentation]
19.30 Dinner at hotel/restaurant Mabi
   
Tuesday, November 25
IPR and organization of industries
Chair: Jacques Mairesse (CREST and NBER)
[presentation]
9.00-9.45 Pierre-Jean Benghozi (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Conception process and organization coordination in design-based industries : new structures and strategies
[abstract | paper | presentation]
  Discussant: Dominique Foray (IMRI and OECD)
9:45-10:30 Patrick Waelbroeck (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
CD sales and internet piracy: theoretical and empirical perspectives
[abstract | paper]
  Discussant: Dietmar Harhoff (University of München)
10.30-11.00 coffee break
   
University patenting
Chair: Dominique Guellec (OECD)
11.00-13.00 round table
University patenting and the diffusion of scientific knowledge: can commercialisation be compatible with broad access?
 

Speakers:

  • Denis Dambois (European Commission, DG Research)
    [presentation]
  • Mario Cervantes (OECD)
    [paper | presentation]
  • Dominique Guellec (OECD)
  • René Vleugels (Office Holding and Knowledge Transfer,Univ.Maastricht)
    [presentation]
13.00-14.00 lunch
   
Other IPR challenges
Chair: Pierre Mohnen (MERIT, University Maastricht)
14.00-14.45 Dietmar Harhoff and Stephan Wagner (University of Munich)
Modeling the duration of patent examination at the European patent office
[abstract | paper | presentation]
  Discussant: Bas ter Weel (MERIT, University Maastricht)
14.45-15.30 Elad Harison (MERIT, University Maastricht)
The structure of IPR regimes in the presence of cumulative innovations
[abstract | presentation]
  Discussant: Patrick Waelbroeck (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
15.30-16.15 Jean-Michel Dalle (IMRI)
Open source technology transfers
[abstract | paper]
  Discussant: Elad Harison (MERIT)
 
 

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