The Complexity of the Patent System Agenda
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March 12 – 14, 2018
Santa Fe Institute
Monday, March 12th
| 8:30am | Light Breakfast |
| 9:00am | Welcome & Introduction to the Conference (Framing Questions)
José Lobo, Arizona State University |
| 9:35am | "The Complexification of Evolution: Innovation Through Inheritance, Development, and Regulation"
David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute |
| 10:10am | Group Discussion I
José Lobo (moderator), Arizona State University |
| 10:35am | Midmorning Break |
| 11:00am | "The Patenting System as a Historical System"
Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College |
| 11:35am | Question Period |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | "Remember, Patents Are (Mainly) Legal Instruments"
Thomas Beach, USPTO |
| 1:35pm | "The Challenge of Recognizing Inventive Novelty"
Stuart Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2:10pm | Discussant: Brendan Tracey, Santa Fe Institute |
| 2:30pm | Question Period |
| 3:00pm | Midafternoon Break |
| 3:30pm | "Quantifying Information in Patents"
Deborah Strumsky, Arizona State University |
| 4:05pm | Question Period |
| 4:20pm | Group Discussion II |
| 5:00pm | Meeting Adjourned |
Tuesday, March 13th
| 8:30am | Light Breakfast |
| 9:00am | "Advances Are Not Lego Bricks: Insights into Innovation from Computational History"
Simon Dedeo, Carnegie Mellon University & Santa Fe Institute |
| 9:35 a.m. | "Patenting as Collective Learning"
James Evans, University of Chicago |
| 10:10am | Question Period |
| 10:30am | Midmorning Break |
| 10:50am | Patenting: The Perspective from Studying Learning
Discussion Lead: Mirta Galesic |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | "Recognizing Emerging Technologies in the Patent Record"
Jan Youtie, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 1:35pm | "Uncertainty and Invention: How Predictive Can Patents Be?"
Hyejin Youn, Northwestern University |
| 2:10pm | Discussant: Feng Bill Shi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2:30pm | Question Period |
| 3:00pm | Midafternoon Break |
| 3:30pm | Group Discussion III |
| 5:00pm | Meeting adjourned |
| 5:15pm | A shuttle will depart from the Institute to the Hotel Santa Fe |
| 6:15pm | Dinner shuttle departs Hotel Santa Fe for Harry’s Roadhouse |
| 6:45pm | Group Dinner hosted by SFI President David Krakauer
Harry’s Roadhouse, 96 B Old Las Vegas Highway, Santa Fe |
| 9:00pm | Shuttle departs Harry’s Roadhouse for Hotel Santa Fe |
Wednesday, March 14th
| 8:30am | Light Breakfast |
| 9:00am | "Invention as Cultural Accumulation: Evidence from Patenting"
Andrés Gómez, Harvard University |
| 9:35am | Question Period |
| 9:55am | The Uncertainty of Patenting: The View from IP Management
Robert Cote, Cote Capital |
| 10:30am | Midmorning Break |
| 10:50am | Group Discussion IV: Forging a New Research Agenda |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | "Can AI Fix What Is “Broken” with the Patent System?"
Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University School of Law, and Peter Harter, The Farrington Group |
| 2:00pm | Discussant: Thomas Beach, USPTO |
| 2:20pm | Group Discussion V |
| 3:30pm | Final Meeting Adjourned |
| 4:15pm | Informal Discussion on Future Research Directions |