08:00-08:45 |
Tea and Coffee |
08:45-09:45 |
Invited Panel 1A – A Legal and Empirical Study into the Intellectual Property Implications of 3D Printing and Policy Considerations |
Chair: Lilian Edwards (University of Strathclyde) |
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Invited Panel 1B – The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court
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Chair and Introduction: Geertrui Van Overwalle (KU Leuven/Louvain) |
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09:45-10:00 |
Coffee Break |
10:00-11:00 |
Invited Panel 2A – IP Governance, Big Data, Data Ownership and Privacy |
Introduction and Chair: Ingrid Schneider (University of Hamburg) |
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Invited Panel 2B – Reconstructing Copyright’s Economic Rights (sponsored by Microsoft)
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Chair: Bernt Hugenholtz (IViR, University of Amsterdam) |
Panel:
- Alain Strowel (KU Leuven/Louvain)
- Stefan Bechtold (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich)
- Séverine Dusollier (Sciences Po Paris)
- Ole-Andreas Rognstad (University of Oslo)
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Responding: Joost Poort (IViR, University of Amsterdam) |
11:00-12:30 |
Parallel Session 3A – Dynamics of International Legal Fora Chair: Stefan Bechtold (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich) |
Paul Torremans (University of Nottingham), “The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court: A View from Private International Law“ |
Caroline Paunov (OECD), “Corruption’s Asymmetric Impacts on Firm Innovation“ |
Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich) and Jens Frankenreiter (ETH Zurich), “Forum Selling in Germany: Supply-Side Effects in Patent Forum Shopping“ |
Fabian Gaessler (Max-Planck-Institut for Innovation and Competition), “What to Buy when Forum Shopping – Determinants of Court Selection in Patent Litigation“ |
Parallel Session 3B – Economics of Copyright Chair: Séverine Dusollier (Sciences Po Paris) |
Steven Watson (Lancaster University), Piers Fleming (University of East Anglia) and Daniel Zizzo (Newcastle University), “Perceptions of legal risk do not predict behaviour in unlawful file sharing: An empirical analysis“ |
Joost Poort (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam) and Nico van Eijk (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam), “Digital Fixation: The Law and Economics of a Fixed e-Book Price“ |
Hyojung Sun (University of Edinburgh), “Beyond Copyright and the Evolution of Digital Music Services“ |
Paul Heald (University of Illinois), Martin Kretschmer (University of Glasgow) and Kris Erickson (University of Glasgow), “The Valuation of Unprotected Works: A Case Study of Public Domain Photographs on Wikipedia“ |
Parallel Session 3C – Creativity, Re-Use and Copyright Chair: Jeremy Silver (MusicGlue Ltd, Bridgeman Art Library and InnovateUK) |
Patrick Waelbroeck (Telecom Paristech) and Martin Quinn (Telecom Paristech), “Competing UGCs“ |
Jessica Silbey (Northeastern University School of Law), “Distribution’s Diversity and Fairer Uses: A Qualitative Analysis of Borrowing Practices in Creative and Innovative Industries“ |
Christian Katzenbach (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) and Lies van Roessel (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society), “Playing without Rules? Regulating Imitation and Innovation in the Games Industry“ |
Joe Karaganis (The American Assembly, Columbia University), “Notice and Takedown in the Age of the Robo Notice“ |
Parallel Session 3E – Intangibles, Tacit Knowledge and Know-How Chair: Salvatore Torrisi (University of Bologna) |
Per Botolf Maurseth (BI Norwegian Business School) and Roger Svensson (IFN), “Tacit Knowledge and the Dynamics of Inventor Activity“ |
Russell Thomson (Swinburne University) and Gaetan de Rassenfosse (EPFL), “R&D offshoring and home industry productivity“ |
Chris Dent (Murdoch University), “Patents, Trade Marks and Know-How: Regulated by Different Contracts and Motivators“ |
Margo Bagley (University of Virginia), “Towering Wave or Tempest in a Teapot? Synthetic Biology, IP and Economic Development“ |
12:30-13:30 |
Joint Lunch with SERCI Delegates (served with SERCI Annual Congress Delegates) |
13:30-14:15 |
SERCI/EPIP Joint Keynote |
Chair: Ruth Towse (CREATe and Bournemouth University) |
Richard Watt (SERCI and University of Canterbury), “Copyright Collectives and Contracts: An Economic Theory Perspective“ |
Responding:
- Sylvie Nérisson (Max-Planck Institute)
- Morten Hviid (University of East Anglia)
- Scott Walker (Performing Rights Society/UK Music)
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Delegates for Trade Dress Panel return to Main Building Senate Room – SERCI and other EPIP delegates remain in Wellington Church. |
14:15-15:15 |
SERCI/EPIP Joint Plenary panel: Compensating creators
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Chair: Marcel Boyer (Université de Montréal and CIRANO) |
Panel:
- Christian Handke (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- Ruben Gutierrez Del Castillo (Fundacion Autor)
- Peter Jenner (Sincere Management)
- Nicola Solomon (Society of Authors)
- John Street (University of East Anglia)
- Eva Van Passel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
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EPIP Special invited panel: The use of trade dress provisions under trade mark law and its implications for design, creation and competition in design-intensive industries |
Chair: Beth Webster (Swinburne University of Technology) |
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15:15-15:30 |
Coffee Break (served at both Wellington Church and in the Main Building Randolph Hall) |
15:30-16:30 |
Parallel Session 4A – SERCI/EPIP Joint Session Chair: Ariel Katz (University of Toronto) |
Stan Liebowitz (University of Texas at Dallas), “Paradise lost: Copyright for British authors in 19th C. America“ |
Christopher Buccafusco (Chicago-Kent College of Law) and Paul Heald (University of Illinois), “Two Views for the Steeple: Testing Porn Exceptionalism in Trademark and Copyright Tarnishment Claims“ |
Parallel Session 4B – Geographical Indications and Regions Chair: Maurizio Borghi (Bournemouth University) |
Peter Drahos (Australian National University), “Australia’s Regions and Agriculture: Can Geographical Indications Help?“ |
Nicola Searle (Goldsmiths, University of London), “The Economics of Geographical Indications: Making Culture Tangible“ |
Hazel Moir (Australian National University), “Geographic Indications: heritage or terroir?“ |
Parallel Session 4C – Patent Value and Costs Chair: Roger Burt (Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys CIPA) |
Federico Munari (University of Bologna) and Azzurra Meoli (University of Bologna), “The Patent Paradox in Crowdfunding. An empirical analysis based on Kickstarter data“ |
Jussi Heikkilä (University of Jyvaskyla), “The relationship between first and second tier patent protection: The case of the Dutch short-term patent system abolition“ |
Mark James Thompson (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property), “The Cost of Patent Protection: Renewal Propensity“ |
Parallel Session 4D – Technology, R&D and Patents Chair: Bronwyn Hall (University of California, Berkeley) |
Georg von Graevenitz (Queen Mary University of London), Bronwyn Hall (University of California, Berkeley) and Christian Helmers (Santa Clara University), “Technology Entry in the Presence of Patent Thickets“ |
Emilio Raiteri (EPFL), “More of the same or something different? Technological originality and novelty in public procurement-related patents“ |
Riccardo Cappelli (University of Bologna), Marco Corsino (University of Bologna) and Salvatore Torrisi (University of Bologna), “Patent strategies: protecting innovation, preempting competition and defending the freedom to operate“ |
Parallel Session 4E – Innovation Behaviour of Firms Chair: Gillian Doyle (University of Glasgow) |
Irene Calboli (Singapore Management University/Texas A&M University School of Law) and Dan Hunter (Swinburne University of Technology Law School), “Trademark Proliferation“ |
Henning Berthold (University of St Andrews) and Barbara Townley (University of St Andrews), “Innovation and IP: A Dialectical View“ |
Cecilie Bryld Fjællegaard (Copenhagen Business School), Karin Beukel (University of Copenhagen) and Lars Alkaersig (Technical University of Denmark), “Designers as Determinant for Aesthetic Innovations“ |
Parallel Session 4F – Standards, Interoperability and IP Chair: Francesco Lissoni (GREThA – Université de Bordeaux) |
Florian Ramel (Technische Universität Berlin) and Knut Blind (Technische Universität Berlin), “The Influence of Standard Essential Patents on Trade“ |
Rudi Bekkers (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Arianna Martinelli (CNR-IBINET and Scuola superiore Sant’Anna), “The causal effect of including standards-related documentation into prior art: evidence from a recent EPO policy change“ |
Sally Weston (Bournemouth University), “Encouraging interoperability by the sharing of interface information obtained by reverse engineering“ |
16:30-16:45 |
Coffee Break |
16:45-17:30 |
Plenary panel – Access to Data (with chief economists) |
Chair: Tony Clayton (Imperial College London) |
Panel Keynote: Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota), “Data Needs for Assessing the Function of Copyright“ |
Responding:
- Nathan Wajsman (OHIM)
- Kamil Kiljanski (European Commission DG Internal Market and Industry)
- Pippa Hall (UK Intellectual Property Office)
- Mosahid Khan (WIPO)
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17:30-18:00 |
Closing Keynote |
Pamela Samuelson (University of California, Berkeley), “Evidence-based IP Policy-making: What’s that?” |
18:00 |
Conference closure |
Beth Webster (Swinburne University of Technology) A Preview of EPIP 2016 (Oxford, 3-5 September 2016) |
Rick Rylance, CEO Arts & Humanities Research Council, and chair Research Councils UK |