Global Intellectual Property Academy, Madison Building, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Headquarters

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Lower Concourse, Madison Building, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Headquarters

Dr. Stuart GRAHAM, Chief Economist, USPTO, US

Dr. Mariagrazia SQUICCIARINI, Senior Economist, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), FR

Dr. Margaret CLEMENTS, Indiana University, US
The Geography of Academic Patents: A Strategic International Collaboration Network

Dr. Christian HELMERS, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of Chinese Firms’ Patenting Activity in the US

Mr. Jean-Yves LEGENDRE, The L’Oreal Group, FR
The Use of Patent Data in Business Development at L’Oreal

Carsten FINK, Chief Economist, WIPO, CH

Stuart GRAHAM, Chief Economist, USPTO, US

Nikolaus THUMM, Chief Economist, EPO, DE

The Honorable David J. KAPPOS, Director of the USPTO, and Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property

Director General Francis GURRY, World Intellectual Property Organization

Director Andrew WYCKOFF, Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Dr. James D. ADAMS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Discovery and Invention in Science-Based Firms

Dr. Hans LÖÖF, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SE
Patent, R&D Strategies and Entrepreneurial Spawning

Ms. Cynthia Barcelon-Yang, Bristol-Myers Squibb, US
The Role of Patent Analysis in Corporate R&D at BMS

Moderator: Stuart GRAHAM, USPTO, US

Dr. Jan YOUTIE, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
Nanotechnology firms from discovery to commercialization

Mr. Nils NEWMAN, MERIT and Intelligent Information Services Corporation, NL
Patent Overlay Mapping: Visualizing Technological Distance

Dr. Alan L. PORTER, Georgia Institute of Technology and Search Technologies, Inc., US
Tracking emergence of a nano technology – Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs)

Main Atrium, Madison Building, USPTO

Sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization
Lower Atrium, Madison Building, USPTO

Mr. Kyriakos DRIVAS, University of California, Berkeley, US
The Role of Exclusive Licensing in Follow-on Research of Academic Patented Inventions

Dr. Lynne ZUCKER, University of California, Los Angeles, US Patent Inventing and Scientific Discovery Synergy: Economic Effects of the Co-Evolution of Universities and Firms

Mr. Ulrich STOLZENBURG, University of Kiel, DE
Scope and Diffusion of Knowledge from German PROs

Moderator: Bruno POTTELSBERGHE, Free University, BE

Dr. Andrew CHRISTIE, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, AU
What Difference Does Patent Examination Make?: An Analysis of the Effect of Examination in the USPTO, the EPO and APO

Dr. Benjamin MITRA-KAHN, Intellectual Property Office, UK
A Framework for International Comparisons of Patent Backlogs

Dr. Julia LANE, National Science Foundation, US
StarMetrics: Using Patent Data to Measure Scientists’ Impacts

Mr. James BESSEN, Boston University, US
The Private Costs of “Patent Troll” Litigation

Dr. Catherine TUCKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Patent Trolls and Innovation

Mr. Yoichiro NISHIMURA, Kanagawa University, JP
An Empirical Assessment of the Effects of Patent Thickets

Mr. Edward J. EGAN, University of California, Berkeley, US
Economic Implications of Patent Citations: Start-up Value & Organizational Form Choice

Michael J. LASINSKI, 284 Partners, LLC, US
Patents in Markets for Technology

Mr. Peter NEUHÄUSLER, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, DE
Patent Information and Corporate Credit Ratings: An Empirical Study of Patent Valuation by Credit Rating Agencies