Property Rights and Innovation

Thursday, November 13th - Friday, November 14th, 2008

The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern University's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to property rights and innovation.

The conference is organized by Professor David D. Haddock, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Northwestern University School of Law.

AGENDA

Day One - Thursday, November, 13th 2008

Welcome and Introduction
David E. Van Zandt, Dean and Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Henry N. Butler, Executive Director, Searle Center, Northwestern University School of Law

Session One
Intellectual Property Rights, the Industrial Revolution, and the Beginnings of Modern Economic Growth
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences & Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University

Coercive Power and Distinct Trajectories of Market Development (post-Symposium revision)
Avner Greif, Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences , Department of Economics, Stanford University

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Session Two
Information Costs in Property, Intellectual Property, and Organizations
Henry E. Smith, Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property & Environmental Law, Yale Law School

Culture and Entrepreneurship Law, Networks and Relationships
Olufunmilayo B. Arewa, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

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Session Three
Irrelevant Intellectual Property Angst
David Haddock, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Northwestern University School of Law

Demsetz Goes Digital: Innovation, Rent-Seeking, And Patent Law Reform
Robert Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

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Session Four
What Gives You the Right? Consumption Data Access Rights and Retail Competition in the Electric Power Industry
Lynne Kiesling, Northwestern University, Department of Economics and Kellogg School of Management

Does Intellectual Property Protection Raise the Price or Increase Quantity?
Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas

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Session Five
A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Interaction Mechanisms among Market Actors under Property Rules and Liability Rules (ABSTRACT)
F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and Hoover Institution

Is There a Market For Ideas?
Scott Stern, Associate Professor of Management & Strategy, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

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Keynote Dinner Address:
Harold Demsetz, Professor Emeritus, UCLA

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Day Two - Friday, November 14th, 2008

Session Six
The Welfare Impact of Entry by Counterfeiters
Supporting Paper: Impact of Entry By Counterfeiters
Yi Qian, Assistant Professor in Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Marketing Department, Northwestern University

A Theory of Legal Personality Based on Contract Bundling
Kenneth Ayotte, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

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Session Seven
Why Don't Inventors Patent?
Petra Moser, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University

Innovation by Monopsony
Reiko Aoki, Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

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Session Eight
Innovation Policy and Friends of the Court: Intellectual Property Advocacy Before the U.S. Supreme Court
David Orozco, Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University
James Conley, Clinical Professor of Technology, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management

Elves or Trolls? The Role of Non-Practicing Patent Owners in the Innovation Economy
Damien Geradin, Professor of Competition Law and Economics, University of Tilburg, Law & Economics Center

The Identity Commons
Richard Brooks, Professor of Law, Yale Law School

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Contact
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Searle Center, please send an email to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu or call (312) 503-1811.