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"Economics and Management of Intellectual Property"

 

Updated 26.6.2007

 

Finally, unofficial exam and essay results. Contact the HSE for the official results as well as the results of re-exams.

 

 

Helsinki School of Economics, Technology Policy and Management Course 38E00100 "Immaterial Property Rights", Spring 2007, 1st Period.

The course text book is Suzanne Scotchmer (2004) "Incentives and Innovation", MIT Press

See also her course homepage

 

The course is jointly taught with Mikko Välimäki

 

Information about the exam and essays

 

LECTURES

  1. Lecture  (2h) Mon 15.1. Välimäki:  "Part I. The Basics of Intellectual Property Law"

  2. Lecture  (2h) Wed. 17.1. Välimäki: "Part II. Use of IPRs"

        - The Finnish Consumer Agency's statement concerning Apple iTunes

        - Apple's "response"

  1. Lecture (2h) Mon 22.1. Takalo: " Part III. The Basic Economics of Intellectual Property"

        - An organization posting prizes

        - An organization allocating subsidies

        - An organization awarding patents

  1. Lecture (2h) Wed. 24.1. Takalo: "Part IV. Breadth and Duration of Intellectual Property and Their Optimal Design"

        - IBM's patent on internet auctions 

  1. Lecture (2h) Mon 29.1. Takalo: "Part IV continues and Part V. Cumulative Innovation and Intellectual Property begins"

  2. Lecture (2h) Wed. 31.1. Guest Lecture by Olli Ilmarinen, Product Manager, Marketing and Business Services Unit, National Board of Patents and Registration in Finland 

  3. Lecture (2h) Mon 5.2. Takalo: "Part V continues"

  4. Lecture (2h) Wed 7.2. Takalo: "Part VI. Competition Policy and Intellectual Property"

  5. Lecture (2h) Mon 12.2. Välimäki: "Part VI continues (Microsoft Cases in the US and Europe)"

  6. Lecture (2h) Wed. 14.2. Välimäki:  "Part VII. Litigation (Economic Arguments Used (and not Used) in Selected Legal Cases)"

  7. Lecture (2h) Mon 19.2. Guest Lecture by Xavier Carpentier, IPR Manager, Nokia Corporation: "Value and Acquisition of Patents"

        Background material for the lecture:

 -  Scotchmer, Chapter 9

 - Jeff Woller's article in Mechanical Engineering Magazine

 - Parchomovsky, G., and Wagner, R. P. (2005) "Patent Portfolios". U of Penn. Law School Public Law Working Paper 56.

  - Shapiro, C. (2006)  "Injunctions, Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties". Unpublished manuscript, U. of California, Berkeley.

  1. Lecture (2h) Wed 21.2. Takalo: "Part VIII. Basic Corporate IP Strategy: Patenting vs. Secrecy"

    - Cohen, W.M, R.R. Nelson, and J. P. Walsh (2000) Protecting Their Intellectual Assets:    Appropriability Conditions and Why US Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not). NBER WP no. 7552

    - Byma, J. and A. Leiponen (2006) Can't Block, Must Run: Small Firms and Approbriability . Unpublished manuscript, Cornell University.

  1. Lecture (2h) Mon 26.2. Takalo: " Part IX. Innovation and IP in Financial Services Sector"

- Josh Lerner's Journal of Finance (2002) article (preprint version)

  1. Lecture (1-1.5h) Wed 28.2. Guest Lecture by Timo Vuorimies, Former Vice Precident, Metso Paper Inc.

  2. Lecture (0.5-1h) Wed 28.2. Takalo

 

 

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