Time and Date: 9:00 - 18:00, Friday, February 20, 2009
Venue: Meeting Room, 4F, Institute of Economic Research
Organizer: Reiko Aoki
| 9:50-10:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks by Reiko Aoki |
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| Chair: Sadao Nagaoka | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Marc Rysman (Boston University) "Patents and the Performance of Voluntary Standard Setting Organizations” |
| 11:00-12:00 | Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University) “Patent Pools and Cross-Licensing in the Shadow of Patent Litigation” [PDF: 333KB] |
| Lunch (for registered participants) | |
| Chair: Marc Rysman | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Sadao Nagaoka (Hitotsubashi University) “The structure and the emergence of essential patents for standards: Lessons from three IT standards” (with Naotoshi Tsukada and Tomoyuki Shimbo) |
| 14:30-15:30 | Yann Meniere (Ecole des Mines) “Ex ante commitments help patent pool formation” |
| Chair: Jay Pil Choi | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Noriyuki Yanagawa (University of Tokyo) "A Darkside of Patent Pools with Individual Licensing" (with Akifumi Ishihara) |
| 17:00-18:00 | Reiko Aoki “CROs and Upstream Innovation” (with Aaron Schiff) |
| 18:30-20:30 | Dinner at a Kunitachi restaurant |