A Journal of Insignificant Inquiry
Here are my liveblog posts from Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years, hosted by Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (Washington, DC, January 12-13, 2009), in the order of the sessions [not necessarily the order I posted them]:
Setting the Stage
Openness
Patents and Innovation
Copyright Policy
Patent Reform
Innovation Inducement Prizes
Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
Innovation, Creativity and Access to [...]
The next panel is on innovation inducement prizes. [I'm posting this out of order because I couldn't get a connection during the session. I didn't format my notes then, and I'll post them in raw form here.] First is Steve Merrill of the National Academies of Science.
in most circumstances, prizes don’t replace patents
circumstances appropriate for [...]
The next panel is on patent reform. [I'm posting this out of order because I couldn't get a connection during the session. I didn't format my notes then, and I'll post them in raw form here.] First is Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School.
change 1: created central patent court — had been significant divergence of [...]
[Kevin Donovan retrieved this post from yesterday, which I had somehow lost. Thanks much!]
The next panel is on openness. First up is Konstantinos Karachalios of the European Patent Office.
Civility is important. The field is very polarized. Our publication contains others’ vision.
The definition of patents is openness — see its etymology. The opposite is secrecy (latent). [...]
The next panel is on Innovation and Access for Medical Technologies. First is Anthony So of Duke University.
Perfect storm in pharma industry: lower productivity of R&D pipeline, increased generic competition, VC funding drying up
Clinical trials as a public good: non-transparent trial results (selective disclosure); avoidance of clinical trials that might reveal unfavorable outcomes (head-to-head effectiveness [...]
The next panel is on Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge.
First is Anne-Catherine Lorrain of Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue.
Interoperability should be a public principle.
ISP liability: Pressure for filtering solutions (consumer surveillance).
Government procurement should require open standards.
Richard Wilder of Microsoft.
(I’m not speaking on behalf of Microsoft.) IP online is important; we need more enforcement. This [...]
The next panel is on IPR enforcement. First is Susan Sell of George Washington University.
Forum shifting/institution shifting.
Enforcement agenda. ACTA — fear obfuscating details of policy making. Opaque negotiations.
Customs and INTERPOL not trained to adjudicate complex legal issues. Can they judge fair use?
Recommendations:
Moratorium. No enforcement detail until definitions are sorted out.
Evidence-based policymaking.
Reform the PTO.
Campaign finance [...]
I wasn’t able to get online earlier this morning, but I have been taking notes, so I’ll edit and post them later. I’ll liveblog the rest of the sessions for the today.
Yesterday, my post on the openness session… disappeared. I don’t know where it went. (Another reason to update the WordPress install on this blog.) [...]
