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Colloquium on Innovation Policy

Professors Rochelle Dreyfuss and Katherine Strandburg

Spring 2012
Monday and Thursday, 4:00-5:50 pm
Monday: Furman Hall, Room 210
Thursday: Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
LW.10930
3 credits

The Colloquium on Innovation Policy focuses each year on a different aspect of the law’s role in promoting creativity and invention. Topics have included open source and collaborative production, the history and economics of the intellectual property industries, the intersection between intellectual property and antitrust law, and international innovation policy. In 2012, we will examine innovation in the health care field, looking at such matters as the relationship between intellectual property, encouraging medical advances, and assuring appropriate public access to these advances; the special problem of developing countries; rights over personal patient data and the use of such data in research and marketing; the impact of personalized medicine on IP paradigms; controversial attempts to deal with the trade in counterfeit drugs; and competition issues related to innovation and intellectual property. The Colloquium has two components. In one, leading thinkers are invited to present recent work. In the other, we read background materials relevant to each speaker's presentation. The Colloquium also provides each student with the opportunity to write and present an independent research paper. 2 New York CLE Credits are available in the area of Professional Practice for each colloquium you attend.

Spring 2012 Schedule of Presenters

Thursday, January 26
Heidi Williams, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Economics
Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome

Thursday, February 9
Christopher Beauchamp, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
The Pure Thoughts of Judge Hand: A Historical Note on the Patenting of Nature

Thursday, February 16
Walter Powell, Professor of Education; Professor of Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science, Communication, and Public Policy, Stanford University, Department of Education
Amphibious Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of Organizational Forms

Thursday, February 23
Barbara Evans, Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
Data Access for 21st-Century Biomedical Innovation

Thursday, March 1
Kara Swanson, Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
The Politics of Life in the Patent Office: A Historical Analysis

Thursday, March 8
Guy David, Assistant Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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Thursday, March 29
Angelina Godoy, Associate Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice, and of International Studies, University of Washington, Sociology Department
CAFTA, Intellectual Property, and Transnational Mobilization for Access to Medicines in Central America

Thursday, April 5
Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
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Questions about the Colloquium should be addressed to Nicole Arzt at nicole.arzt@nyu.edu or 212-998-6013.

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