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Licensing Executives Society
Boston Chapter
Recent Supreme Court Decisions:
Implications for Licensing
Monday, September 17, 2007
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
WilmerHale, 60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109
Presenters: Ian M. Cockburn, Professor of Finance
and Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar in the School
of Management at Boston University, where he teaches and performs
research in the areas of business strategy, intellectual property, economics
of innovation, and management of high technology companies. Much of
his research is focused on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Professor
Cockburn graduated from the University of London in 1984, and completed his
Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1990. Prior to joining
the faculty of Boston University, he was the Van Dusen Professor of Business
Administration in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia. He
is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Professor Cockburn is published widely in leading journals
in economics and management. Among his most highly cited papers are “Measuring
Competence: Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research” in Strategic
Management Journal, “Generics and New Goods in Pharmaceutical Price
Indexes” in American Discovery” in the Journal of Economics
and Management Strategy, “Scale, Scope, and Spillovers: Determinants
of Research Productivity in the Pharmaceutical Industry” in the RAND
Journal of Economics, “Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and
the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery” in the Journal of Industrial
Economics, and “Is the Pharmaceutical Industry in a Productivity Crisis” in
Innovation Policy and the Economy.
Michael J. Meurer, Professor
of Law and Michaels Faculty Research Scholar in the School of Law at Boston
University, where he teaches
courses in patents, intellectual property and law and economics. His
book Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators
at Risk (co-authored with James Bessen) will be published by Princeton
University Press in March 2008. Professor Meurer received S.B. degrees in
Economics and Interdisciplinary Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and a J.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota. Prior
to joining the faculty at Boston University School of Law in 1999, he was
an economics professor at Duke University and later a law professor at the
University at Buffalo. Professor Meurer has received several grants
and fellowships, including two grants from the Pew Charitable Trust, a Ford
Foundation grant, an Olin Faculty Fellowship at Yale Law School and a postdoctoral
fellowship at AT&T Bell Labs. He has served as an expert witness
for the Federal Trade Commission on a merger case presenting issues related
to patent licensing. He also has consulted with government officials
from developing countries about antitrust law, and taught short courses in
American intellectual property law at the law faculties of the University
of Victoria and the National University of Singapore.
Alfred C.
Server, M.D., Ph.D., J.D. Dr. Server is
a partner in WilmerHale’s Corporate Department, and is co-chair of
the firm’s Technology Transactions and Licensing Group. He focuses
his practice on corporate partnering in the life sciences field. Dr.
Server received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. He received
an A.B. degree from Princeton University. His biomedical training includes
and M.D. degree and a Ph.D. degree (neurological sciences) from Stanford
University, a medical internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a neurology
residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and post-doctoral fellowships in neurovirology
and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University. Prior
to joining the firm, Dr. Server was a founder and the research director of
a biotechnology company.
Monday,
September 17, 2007
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. – Networking Reception
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Presentation and Discussion
WilmerHale
60 State Street, Boston, MA 02109
617-526-6000
WilmerHale is accessible from the Government Center T Stop on the Green Line
and the State Street T Stop on the Orange Line
Registration:
The cost is $25.00 per attendee. Please
register by September 12, 2007.
Online Registration:
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By Check:
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to “LES Boston” and return this invitation and the registration
fee to:
Jeffrey P. Johnson
Boston Chapter Chairperson, Licensing Executives Society
WilmerHale
60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
Telephone: 617-526-6394 Facsimile: 617-526-5000
e-mail: jeffrey.johnson@wilmerhale.com
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