Scott Kieff is one of the country’s leading experts on obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights and bringing new ideas to market. He has delivered numerous articles and speeches and is the author of “Perspectives on Properties of the Human Genome Project,” published by Academic Press. In addition, he co-authored the popular treatise and casebook Principles of Patent Law, now in its second edition, which has been adopted a many leading law schools including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

 

Lerner’s research examines policies towards intellectual property protection, particularly patents, and its impact on growth and high-technology industries. (The research is discussed his recent book Innovation and Its Discontents, Princeton University Press, 2004.) Lerner examines strategic alliances and other new organizational forms in high-technology industries. He is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Corporate Finance and Productivity Programs. In addition, he is an organizer of the Innovation Policy and the Economy Group, serving as co-editor of their publication Innovation Policy and the Economy, and organizer of the Entrepreneurship Working Group. He serves as the School’s representative on Harvard University Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee and on the Provost’s Committee on Technology Transfer.

 

Suzanne Scotchmer has published extensively on intellectual property law, rules of evidence, tax enforcement, cooperative game theory, club theory, and evolutionary game theory. Her research on intellectual property rights is discussed in her recent volume Innovation and Incentives, MIT Press 2004. She is currently on the editorial boards of Journal of Economic Literature, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and previously on the boards of Journal of Public Economics and American Economic Review. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division has used her as a consultant on antitrust matters; she has served on a committee of the National Academy of Sciences; and she has been a scholar in residence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

 

Polk Wagner is one of the most technologically sophisticated scholars in the emerging fields of intellectual property and Internet/cyberspace law. He has published important articles concerning the viability of contemporary control-based criticisms of intellectual property laws; the relationship between technology and the patent law; the First Amendment and software regulation, among others.  His current projects include an empirical study of the Federal Circuit’s methodological approach to patent decisions, an analysis of ‘state’ First Amendment interests, and the articulation of an ex ante theory of the patent law.

 

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