10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF THE EPIP ASSOCIATION
Intellectual Property (IP) in the Creative Economy
GLASGOW, UK
SEPTEMBER 2-3, 2015
CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy, hosted the 10th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association (European Policy for Intellectual Property) in Glasgow, September 2-3, 2015.
Delegates interested in the economic, legal and political aspects of intellectual property rights explored the role of Intellectual Property (IP) in the Creative Economy, with a focus on copyright, data and the changing economics of the digital world.
LEAD TOPIC
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) IN THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
FURTHER TOPICS
IP and Economics of digitisation • IP and the digital single market • Copyright evidence and reform • Collecting societies • Big data (access, ownership, regulation) • Geographical indications • IP in pharmaceutical industry (supplementary protection) • Enforcement (preventive schemes in supply-side chain) • Standards and pools (standard essential patents, transparency in standardization) • Utility models, small patents • The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court • IP Litigation • IP and open innovation • IP and competition policy • IP and governance • IP and other incentives to innovate • IP and contract law • IP licensing • IP and science • IP and data protection • IP and measurement of intangible assets • IP and venture capital • Designs • Trade marks
PLENARY SESSIONS AND KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
• PLENARY SESSION 1 - “The Role of Disclosure in Patent Systems” - Yoshimi Okada (Hitotsubashi University), Sadao Nagaoka (Tokyo Keizai University), Stuart Graham (Georgia Tech), Dietmar Harhoff (Max-Planck-Institute)
• PLENARY SESSION 2 - “Measuring the Creative Economy” - Chair: Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow) - Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London), Hasan Bakhshi (NESTA), Dimiter Gantchev (WIPO)
• PLENARY SESSION 3 - “Access to Data (with chief economists)” - Chair: Tony Clayton (Imperial College London) - Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota) “Data Needs for Assessing the Function of Copyright“ - Responding: Nathan Wajsman (OHIM), Kamil Kiljanski (European Commission DG Internal Market & Industry), Pippa Hall (UK Intellectual Property Office), and Mosahid Khan (WIPO)
- Ian HARGREAVES
(Cardiff University).
Digital Opportunity: A Review of IP and Growth, “Copyright Wars: Frozen Conflict?“
- Petra MOSER
(New York University), “Copyright and Science: Evidence from the World War II Book Republica- tion Program“
- Pamela SAMUELSON
(University of California, Berkeley),
“Evidence-based IP Policy-making: What’s that?”
- Richard WATT
(SERCI and University of Canterbury)
“Copyright Collectives and Contracts: An Economic Theory Perspective”
Responding: MEP Julia Reda (Greens/EFA, Pirate Party)
Responding: Lionel Bently (Cambridge University)
Chair: Ruth Towse (CREATe and Bournemouth University)
Responding: Sylvie Nérisson (Max-Planck Institute), Morten Hviid (University of East Anglia), Scott Walker (Performing Rights Society/UK Music)
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Martin Kretschmer (CREATe, University of Glasgow)