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 |
| 9:20 a.m. | "Why is the Santa Fe Institute hosting this meeting?"
David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute |
| 10:10am | Group Discussion I: "What do we want to talk about?"
José Lobo (moderator), Arizona State University |
| 10:45am | Coffee Break |
| 11:05am | "The patenting system as a historical system"
Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College |
| 11:40am | Q&As |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | "The challenge of recognizing (and patenting) novelty"
Alan Marco, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 1:35pm | "Patents as information packets…but mainly legal instruments"
Thomas Krause, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office |
| 2:10pm | Discussant: Brendan Tracey, Santa Fe Institute |
| 2:25pm | Q&As |
| 3:00pm | Tea Break |
| 3:30pm | "Patenting as cultural accumulation?"
Andrés Gómez Calderón, Portillo & de la Cruz |
| 3:35pm | Discussant: Mirta Galesic, Santa Fe Institute |
| 3:55pm | Group Discussion II
Peter Harter (moderator) |
| 5:00pm | Meeting adjourned |
Tuesday, March 13th
| 8:30am | Light breakfast |
| 9:00am | "Computational history and patent data: what can we learn about the patenting system?"
Simon Dedeo, Carnegie Mellon University & Santa Fe Institute |
| 9:35 a.m. | "Invention as collective learning: how different is patenting?"
James Evans, University of Chicago |
| 10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00am | TBD |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | "Recognizing emerging technologies in the patent record"
Jan Youtie, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 1:35pm | "Quantifying information in patents"
Deborah Strumsky, Arizona State University |
| 2:10pm | Discussant: Hyejin Youn, Northwestern University |
| 2:30pm | Q&As |
| 3:00pm | Tea Break |
| 3:30pm | Group Discussion III |
| 5:00pm | Meeting adjourned |
Wednesday, March 14th
| 8:30am | Light breakfast |
| 9:00am | "The uncertainty of patenting: risky, profitable and annoying — the view from business"
Brian Hinman, Former Chief IP Officer at Phillips |
| 9:35 a.m. | TBD |
| 10:10am | TBD |
| 10:45am | Group Discussion IV |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | "Can AI fix what is “broken” with the patent system?"
Colleen Chien, Santa Clara University School of Law |
| 2:00pm | Discussant: Feng Bill Shi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2:20pm | Group Discussion V |
| 3:30pm | Meeting ends |
| 4:00pm | Informal discussion on a possible research agenda/effort on invention, information and uncertainty |