Colloquium on Innovation Policy
Professors Rochelle Dreyfuss and Harry First
Spring 2009
Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00-5:50 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
L12.3534.001
3 credits
The Colloquium on Innovation Policy focuses each year on topics dealing with promoting innovation. Topics for discussion have included the law and economics of creative production, incentive structures, innovation in developing economies, the intellectual property/antitrust intersection, and international issues in innovation policy. In 2009, the topic is "What's New? History and the Development of Innovation Policy." The professors plan to use historical studies of innovation and the legal response to innovation to enhance our comprehension of current intellectual property and antitrust law and to inform our understanding of the issues that are critical today. The Colloquium has two components. In one, outside speakers are invited to present scholarly papers. In the other, the class reads background materials relevant to each speaker's presentation. 2 New York CLE Credits are available in the area of Professional Practice for each colloquium you attend.
Spring 2009 Schedule of Presenters
January 15
Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law
The Comparative History of Copyright: Primary Sources in Five Jurisdictions, 1450-1900
January 22
Christopher Beauchamp, Princeton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs
Technology's Trials: Patent Litigation during the Second Industrial Revolution
February 5
Daniel Kevles, Yale Law School
The Apples of our Eyes: Innovation, Art, and Intellectual Property in American Fruits, 1800 to 1930
February 12
Doron Ben-Atar, Fordham University, Department of History
Principled Talk and Free Rides: The Moral Climate of IP in the Early Republic
February 26
Naomi Lamoreaux, UCLA, Department of Economics
The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
March 12
Janet Abbate, Virginia Tech, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program
Innovating for Equity: Female Entrepreneurs in the Early Software Industry
March 26
Herb Hovenkamp, The University of Iowa College of Law
Christina Bohannan, The University of Iowa College of Law
Restraints on Use and Sale in Intellectual Property
April 2
Zorina Khan, Bowdin College, Department of Economics
Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930
Questions about the Colloquium should be addressed to Nicole Arzt at arztn@exchange.law.nyu.edu or 212-998-6013.