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Selected presentations, talks, and media appearances by Project Members

Media Appearances · Other Media Content · Presentations · Talks · Testimony

Media Appearances

John Batchelor Show interview with F. Scott Kieff on the article Patently Bad Policy. The interview begins at 29:30.
John Batchelor Show interview with F. Scott Kieff on the article Why Business Isn't Getting 'in The Game.' The interview begins at 1:40.
NPR story on gene patents, featuring F. Scott Kieff. Aired November 4, 2010.
ABC News interview about intellectual property rights in sports moves with Pennie & Edmonds attorneys, Robert Kunstadt, F. Scott Kieff, and Robert G. Kramer.
CNBC Interview with F. Scott Kieff on sports patents.

Other Media Content

Federalist Society podcast, "Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy?", October 24, 2012.
Quanta: Patent Rights in the Supreme Court, a discussion between Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, Fred von Lohmann, and Mark Lemley, moderated by Adam Mossoff. Produced by the Federalist Society's Intellectual Property Practice Group, September 30, 2009.

Presentations

Intellectual Property and Parallel Importation—Should the U.S., Through IP Laws and Other Means, Protect Businesses from “Gray Goods” Imported Without Manufacturers’ Authorization?, panel discussion featuring F. Scott Kieff, hosted by the Federalist Society Intellectual Property Practice Group on November 10, 2011, during the 2011 National Lawyers Convention. Panel transcript from the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law.
Joseph Straus presented the 2010 Rudolf Diesel Medal for Best Innovation Promotion to the European Patent Academy.
"Munich: The City of IP and Innovation, from a Global Perspective," speech given by Joseph Straus at the Shanghai IP Forum on November 26, 2010.
"The European Economy in the Financial Crisis", panel discussion co-chaired by Joseph Straus as part of a joint meeting between the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Russian Academy of Sciences on "What Does Russia Expect from Europe?" held in Salzburg, Austria on May 26-28, 2010.
The Co-Existence of Plant Breeders’ Rights and Patents – Possible Solutions, presented at CIOPARA Plant Breeders' Rights Conference in Seville, Spain on March 3, 2010 by Joseph Straus.
Patent Application as an Abuse of Dominant Market Position under Article 82 EC Treaty? presented at the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office in Ljubljana on January 14, 2010 by Joseph Straus.
Some Tangible and Troubling Characteristics of Heightened Patent Eligibility Standards, presented by F. Scott Kieff on January 4th, 2010 at the Sanford T. Colb & Co. Intellectual Property Law Conference on The Future of Subject Matter Eligibility After In re Bilski held at Bar-Ilan University.
Patent (Re)Think?, CLE Presentation given by F. Scott Kieff on September 22, 2009.
Targeting NPEs: Perverse Impacts on Innovation and Competition. Talk given January 30, 2009 by F. Scott Kieff at the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal Symposium on Shifting Strategies in Patent Law. Presentation Slides. Question & Answer Video.
A Soup to Nuts Overview of a Job Search: A Common Sense Primer for Law Students, presented by F. Scott Kieff at the 2009 January Intersession at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Video. Presentation Slides.
Property rights in patent law. Presentation by F. Scott Kieff given at St. Louis University School of Law November, 2008.
Property Rights in Intellectual Property: Impacts on Innovation and Competition, presented by F. Scott Kieff on September 22nd, 2008 at the Meeting of the Gathering 1.0 in Palo Alto.
F. Scott Kieff, Presentation, "Protecting Software-Related Inventions in the United States: Evolution by the Courts" at AIPPI in Boston (Sept. 10, 2008)
New Institutional Economics and Recent Institutional Changes in Intellectual Property, presented July 25, 2008 at the University of Washington School of Law Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property's High Technology Protection Summit.
Symposium on The New Ordering of Intellectual Property: The Emergence of Contracts as the Drivers of Intellectual Property Rights at the University of Maryland School of Law on 18 April 2008. Transcripts of panel presentation and discussions.
On the Importance of Property Rights in Intangibles like IP to Access, Competition, and Economic Development by F. Scott Kieff, presented to seminars Melbourne and Sydney and a conference in Singapore in Feb-Mar 2008.
Perils of Patent Reform: Flexibility’s Achilles Heel at PFF Aspen Summit in August 2007. F. Scott Kieff.
Presentation before the National Press Club by F. Scott Kieff given in Washington, D.C. on July 10, 2007. Part of a series on "Who Owns Your Genes?"
Engineering a Deal: A Private Ordering Solution to the Anticommons Problem (Spring 2006 version). F. Scott Kieff and Troy A. Paredes.

Talks

"A Debate About the Patent System", given at PatCon 3 at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law on April 12, 2013 with Judge Richard Posner and Richard A. Epstein.
The Case for Preferring Patent Validity Litigation over Second Window Review and Gold Plate Patents, talk given at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Foundations of Intellectual Property Reform Symposium, January 16, 2009. F. Scott Kieff.
Understanding Patent Quality Mechanisms, talk given at the University of Pennsylvania Law Review Foundations of Intellectual Property Reform Symposium, January 16, 2009. R. Polk Wagner.

Testimony

FTC Panel on Economic Perspectives on IP and Technology Markets, part of the FTC Hearings on the Evolving IP Marketplace - The Operation of IP Markets, March 19, 2009, F. Scott Kieff. Video. Transcript.
FTC Hearing on the Evolving IP Marketplace - Panel on Changes in Injunction Law, February 12, 2009. (Transcript Part 1 & Part 2; Video Part 1 & Part 2). Henry E. Smith.
United States Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division Joint Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property (Apr. 10, 2002). Transcript. Invited testimony of F. Scott Kieff.
Comments Regarding Competition and Intellectual Property – Summary of Proposed Testimony, this submission was the basis for the invitation to present further oral testimony. F. Scott Kieff.

News

On September 10, 2012, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate F. Scott Kieff as a Member of the United States International Trade Commission and Joshua D. Wright as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. On September 11, 2012, President Obama formally nominated Kieff and Wright; and the Senate confirmed Wright on January 1, 2013. Of the twelve people who have been members of our Project's research team, three have been nominated by a United States President to serve as a member of one of the independent government commisions focusing on the economy. In 2008, Troy A. Paredes, one of the Project's three founding investigators, was nominated by President George W. Bush as a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a post in which he presently serves. On January 3, 2013, Kieff's nomination, along with the others pending at the end of the Senate's term, were Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. On February 4, 2013, Kieff was re-nominated by President Obama.

On April 12, 2013 Richard A. Epstein debated the patent system with Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner at PatCon 3. Professor Epstein and Judge Posner were both featured speakers at the event, and the debate was covered at Patently-O and Written Description.

On October 24, 2012, Richard A. Epstein participated in a Federalist Society podcast on the topic "Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy?"

Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation, a new book co-edited by F. Scott Kieff, is now available from Cambridge University Press, Amazon.com, and many other booksellers. See this link for more information and a discount code on orders placed through Cambridge University Press.

Stephen H. Haber and Aldo Musacchio were awarded the 2012 Manuel Espinosa Yglesias Prize for their paper, "These are the 'Good Old Days': Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." The juried prize was awarded by the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY) and includes both a monetary award and publication of the paper by the CEEY.

"Patents are not the enemy", an article by Rod Cooper, Richard A. Epstein, and Stephen H. Haber, was published in the Chicago Tribune on August 15, 2012. (Free registration may be required to view the article online.)

Stephen Haber received the Walter J. Gores award, Stanford University's highest teaching honor, on June 17, 2012.

Rainfall, Human Capital, and Democracy, a paper by Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo was cited in The Economist on April 7, 2012. Haber has expanded upon that work in a new working paper, Climate, Technology, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions.

Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, and Richard Spulber's latest paper, The FTC, IP, and SSOs: Government Hold-up Replacing Private Coordination, was published in the March, 2012 volume of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics.

F. Scott Kieff was consulted for the New York Times article "Trademarks Take on New Importance in Internet Era," published on February 20, 2012.

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts has elected F. Scott Kieff for membership in the Academy for his work in the fields of the social sciences, law, and economics.

On November 24, 2011, Joseph Straus was awarded the title Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia by the government of Slovenia.

F. Scott Kieff was interviewed on the John Batchelor Show on November 22, 2011 (skip to 29:30 to hear the interview).

Defining Ideas has published Patently Bad Policy, an essay by F. Scott Kieff on two upcoming Supreme Court patent cases, Hyatt v. Kappos and Mayo v. Prometheus.

F. Scott Kieff was selected as a finalist for the 2011 World Technology Award for Law, presented in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, MIT Technology Review, and Science.

Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, and Daniel F. Spulber submitted a white paper entitled The FTC's Proposal for Regulating IP through SSOs Would Replace Private Coordination with Government Hold-Up in response to the FTC’s Request for Comments and Announcement of Workshop on Standard-Setting Issues.

A statement by Geoffrey A. Manne and Joshua D. Wright on the recent FTC antitrust investigation of Google was cited in numerous publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the National Journal, and InformationWeek.

A new four-part series of essays by F. Scott Kieff on proposed patent reform in the US has been published by Defining Ideas: The Perils of Patent Reform, Welcome to Patent Purgatory, Patent Reform Goes Haywire, and File First, Invent Later?. The essays were cited by Representative Dana Rohrabacher in a speech on the House floor on June 22, 2011 and in the New York Times Dealbook column.

A draft paper co-authored by Stephen Haber, Rainfall, Human Capital, and Democracy, was featured in a Bloomberg article on April 4, 2011. Mr. Haber was interviewed about the paper on Bloomberg TV's Street Smart. The paper was also featured in the Wall Street Journal's Week in Ideas for April 9, 2011.

A new paper co-authored by Stephen Haber, Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse, was featured in the Freakonomics blog on April 4, 2011.

F. Scott Kieff and Henry E. Smith provided invited testimony before the FTC Hearings on The Evolving IP Marketplace: Aligning Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition; and their works were also cited in the report recently published by the FTC on March 7, 2011.

F. Scott Kieff was interviewed on the John Batchelor Show about the article Why Business Isn't Getting in The Game. The interview begins at 1:40.

An article by Stephen H. Haber and F. Scott Kieff on Why Business Isn't Getting 'In The Game' was published by Investor's Business Daily on February 11, 2011.