From Australia’s Review of the National Innovation System, released last fall:
[I]ntellectual property policy is being managed as a legal issue, whereas although this area like any other must operate through the legal system, intellectual property policy is most fundamentally an aspect of economic policy. … [T]he consideration of policy with regard to both [copyrights and [...]
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Australia gets it right: going beyond just lawyers
OA at TACD IP
I previously liveblogged the sessions from Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years, hosted by Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (Washington, DC, January 12-13, 2009). Now I want to go back through the notes (which are cursory and, to others, potentially cryptic) and draw out one particular area of discussion, that of open access [...]
Liveblog: TACD IP: Innovation Inducement Prizes
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 [...]
Liveblog: TACD IP: Patent Reform
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 [...]
Liveblog: TACD IP: Openness
[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). [...]
Liveblog: TACD IP: Innovation and Access for Medical Technologies
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 [...]
Liveblog: TACD IP: Patents and Innovation
The next panel is on patents and innovation. First is Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University.
Maintaining an innovation economy is central to America’s long run success. The financial sector relied on overly simplistic economic models, didn’t understand the role of government, used economic ideology to prop up its interests. The high tech and research sectors face similar [...]
Liveblog: TACD IP conference
As part of my New Years’ resolutions, I want to blog more about events that I attend. Today’s (I think — my brain isn’t working 100% yet this morning) the first event I’ve been to this year, I’ll start here. Today, I’m at the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue workshop, Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The [...]
