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Regulating Knowledge: Costs, Risks and Models of Innovation
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Providing a Testbed for Legislation on Software Patents and exclusion rights in general. Conference is organised by FFII and MERIT. It contains tracks for discussion among researchers as well as tutorials for software professionals, business people and legislators. A track about "software patents and small and medium enterprises" is co-organised with CEA-PME.
Purpose
- Inform and Train business people and legislators about the impact of patent and patent legislation
- Answer questions that have been raised by recent debates about the software patent directive, about the Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) or about the reports of Federal Trade Commission and National Academy of Science in the USA and by EU policies (Lisbon Strategy), including the requirements to a future Industrial Property Regime.
The conference will involve researchers, policymakers and a fairly large number of concerned professionals and entrepreneurs from concerned fields.
Proposals for Sub-Units
- SME Track (jointly organised with CEA-PME, See also last CEA-PME conference.)
- Legislator Track
- Patent Insurance Track (on CEC Patent Insurance, OSRM, LiMux)
- Initial Proposals for Panels
Resources
- preparation
- subjects of study
- static web page
- News Mailing List
- Discussion Mailing List
- Further information from swptest0404-help at ffii org
Organisers
- FFII -- Erik proposed Laura Creighton for logistics
- MERIT (Maastricht Institute for Research in Information Technology, NL)
Sponsors
- Open Society Institute
- smaller sponsors of FFII
Participants
- Dominique Guellec (economist, European Patent Office, Munich)
- Dominique Foray (economist, OECD, Paris)
- Luc Soete, Robin Cowan, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh et al (MERIT)
- Brian Kahin (University of Michigan, USA)
- Jim Bessen (Research on Innovation, MIT, US)
- Innovation 2004 (Paris)
- Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP
- Michel Rocard MEP
- Dany Cohn-Bendit MEP
- Erika Mann MEP (to be confirmed)
- Arlene McCarthy MEP (to be confirmed)
Proposed Speakers
- Chris Pratley, MS developer
- Brian Caulfield, ICT Ireland (EICTA) patent policy speaker with experience in software companies and venture capital (Trinity Venture Capital Inc)
- Jean-Jaques Van Eckaudt
- MdEP Lambsdorff Junior, FDP
- Olga Drossou, Boell Foundation (see Open Innovation-conf)
- Club of Rome
- Anja Neitzert
- Jan Hofmann (Deutsche Bank Research)
- Rainer Kuhlen, University of Konstanz, UN level experieced esp. WSIS, UN
- Marcus Dapp, swiss researcher ETH
- Ben Wallis (geneve representative of cptech)
- James Love, cptech
- Robin Gross, IPjustice
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