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09.00-17.00

Pre-conference Workshop on Understanding Geographical Indications organized by the Australian National University’s Centre for European Studies (ANUCES), see http://politicsir.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ces/events/understanding-geographical-indications-berlin-workshop

08.30-09.00

Registration & coffee

09.00-13.00

PhD workshop

Prof. Irene Calboli (Texas A&M, Singapore Management University), Prof. Geertrui van Overwalle (University of Leuven), Prof. Georg von Graevenitz (University of London), Prof. Dr. Fabian Gaessler (Technical University Munich and Max Planck Institute Munich)

13.00-14.30

Lunch break

14.30-16.45

Registration & coffee

16.45-19.00

Plenary Session I:
welcome speeches and round table discussion
“IP Strategies in Dynamic Industries”

Prof. Stuart Graham (Georgia Tech), Prof. Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute Munich), David Kappos, (tbc)

09.00-11.00

Plenary Session II:
keynote speech
“IP in data-driven economies”
and round table discussion

Prof. Herbert Zech (University of Basel) (Keynote Speaker)

Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren (University of Haifa), Prof. Justus Haucap (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf), Prof. Aija Leiponen (Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management), Prof. Axel Metzger (Humboldt University Berlin)

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.50

Parallel sessions I

1. Weizenbaum I: Towards a Market Model for Big Data 
2. Patent based indicators 
3. PANEL: StandardEssential Patents: Governance and Anti-trust Policy in Europe, Japan, and the US 
4. Does Society Need more trademarks? Social returns of trademarks under scrutiny. 
5. Labor markets for inventors

12.50-13.50 

Lunch break

13.50-15.20

Parallel sessions II

1. Weizenbaum II: Economics of DATA: a case for IP Rights 
2. IP and knowledge diffusion 
3. Standard-Essential Patens: Empirical studies I 
4. Trade Secrets – Crime and policy in contemporary society 
5. Empirical Evaluation of IP & IP Strategies

15.20-15.40

Coffee break

15.40-17.00

Parallel sessions III

1. Weizenbaum III: Contracts on personal and Big Data: Conditions and Limits of a Market Model 
2. IP and knowledge production 
3. Standard-Essential Patens: Empirical studies II 
4. Economic Models of IPRs 
5. Patent Strategies

17.00-17.20

Coffee break

17.20-17.40

 General assembly of the EPIP Association

17.40-18.20

Plenary Session III:
keynote speech
“Industrial espionage and productivity”

Prof. Albrecht Glitz (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)

20:00

Conference dinner

Sofitel Gendarmenmarkt

09.00-11.00

Plenary Session IV:
keynote speech
“IP and international trade”
and round table discussion

Prof. Keith Maskus (University of Colorado), Prof. Margaret Kyle (Ecole de Mines, Paris), Benjamin Mitra-Kahn (IP Australia), Jayashree Watal (WTO), Pippa Hall (UK IP)

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

11.30-12.50

Parallel sessions IV

1. Weizenbaum IV: Competition on Data and information markets 
2. PANEL: The legal politics of News: does evidence matter in the creation of press publishers’ Rights? 
3. IP and entrepreneurship 
4. Comparative studies of Online Piracy 
5. Current Challenges in IP Policy

12.50-13.50 

Lunch break

13.50-15.20

Parallel sessions V

1. Copyrights 
2. Trade Marks
3. IP in a digital World 
4. IP Litigation

15.20-15.40

Coffee break

15.40-17.00

Plenary Session V:
keynote speech
“Innovation and Development: the role of patents”

Prof. Bronwyn Hall