Conferenza EPIP 2013 – The Frontiers of IP European Policy for Intellectual Property

Abstract dell’intervento di Andrea Stazi sul tema “Biotechnological inventions and limits of patentability between public policy and legal process”

Sept. 4-6 2013 – Telecom ParisTech

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Master Class Sept. 4, 2013 An international masterclass will be organized the day before the conference, on Wednesday Sept. 4, 2013 with lectures by Pierre Larouche (Tilburg University) and Dietmar Harhoff (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). The master class is a place of discussion between lawyers and economists. It is open to PhD students and people from the industry or public institutions interested in the multi-disciplinary dimensions of IP. 9:00 – 12:00 Pierre Larouche (Tilburg University) – Law for economists Introduction Ten propositions about law and lawyers (to be debated) Illustration: the Leegin case Workshop on one these cases : Microsoft decision / Apple e-books case / ongoing Google case / FRAND cases (Apple/Motorola, Apple/Samsung). 14:00 – 17:00 Dietmar Harhoff (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) – The Economics of Patent Systems Evolution of Patents Systems 1980-2012 Overall Concerns and Technology-Specific Effects Strategic Patenting From Theory to Empirics – The Role of Operationalization Corporate Governance of Patent Systems

Thursday September 5, 2013 8:30 Introduction Yves Poilane (Director of Telecom ParisTech) Armand Levy (Director of Innovation of Telecom ParisTech)

9:00 – 9:30 Invited talks Alain Schmitt (Chef du service de la compétitivité et du développement des PME, DGCIS), Kerstin Jorna (Director at European Commission, DG MARKT, Directorate for Intellectual Property) Chair: Jacques Mairesse (CREST-INSEE) 9:30 – 10:30 IP and the knowledge frontier Michael Meurer (Boston University) and panel with sponsors Chair: Dietmar Harhoff (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) 10:45 – 12:15 Parallel sessions Download program 13:15 – 14:30 IP and contract law Andrew Torrance (University of Kansas), Alexander Peukert (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) Chair: Geertrui Van Overwalle (University of Leuven) 14:45 – 16:15 Parallel sessions Download program 16:30 – 18:30 Copyright in the digital era Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota), Jean Berbinau (Collège de l’Hadopi), Alain Strowel (Facultés Universitaires Saint Louis) Chair: Patrick Waelbroeck (Telecom ParisTech) Friday September 6, 2013 8:45 -10:15 IP and competition policy Dietmar Harhoff (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Pierre Larouche (Tilburg Univeristy), Damien Neven (Université de Lausanne) Chair: David Encaoua (Université de Paris 1) 10:30 – 12:00 Parallel sessions Download program 13:00 – 14:30 Panel on the unitary patent package TBC (Discussant from the Intellectual Property Directorate of DG MARKT, European Commission) Paul van Beukering (Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Unified Patent Court), Taliah Walklett (LLM Nokia), Manuel Desantes Real (Professor at the University of Alicante), Matthias Lamping (Senior research fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law), Alice Pezard (Conseillère honoraire à la Cour de cassation) Chair: Ingrid Schneider (University of Hamburg) 14:45 – 15:45 Parallel sessions Download program 16:00 – 18:00 International technology transfer and international IP issues Keith Maskus (University of Colorado), Dominique Guellec (OECD), Carsten Fink (WIPO), Henning Grosse Ruse Khan (Max Planck Institute) Chair: Bruno Van Pottelsberghe (Université Libre Bruxelles, Solvay) 18:00 – 18:30 Yves Lapierre Directeur général de l’Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle