The Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the School of Law will host its inaugural conference, “Commercializing Innovation,” Nov. 4-5 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.
The conference, co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies at the law school, will examine potential barriers to commercializing innovations created by communities, organizations and property rights regimes.
“This conference brings together leaders from a wide variety of disciplines to consider the fundamental question of how do innovations ultimately become commercialized,” said Troy Paredes, J.D., professor of law and the conference co-organizer, along with F. Scott Kieff, J.D., associate professor of law.
“The commercialization process is central to ensuring that new ideas ultimately become goods and services that all of us can enjoy.”
Conference panel discussions will focus on topics such as:
• Commercializing the public domain;
• Transactional structures to solve the anticommons problem;
• Innovation, its discontents and patent reform;
• Open source and commercialization;
• The timing of patenting in the innovation process;
• Patents and upstream biomedical innovation; and
• The impact of the Bayh-Dole Act on genetic research and development.
The conference is free and open to the public; however, registration is required.
For registration information and a full conference agenda, go online to law.wustl.edu/ipconf05.