Events

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Generalverwaltung, Konferenzraum, Hofgartenstr. 8, München

Zu praktischen Folgen von BGH Fräsverfahren - in welchen Fallkonstellationen sind ggf. sehr zeit- und ressourcenaufwändige Beweiserhebungen zur Aktivlegitimation im Patentverletzungsprozess sachgerecht und in welchen nicht? Theorie und Praxis scheinen derzeit womöglich etwas auseinander zu fallen. In jedem Fall besteht Anlass zur Diskussion.

Prof. Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy ist Partner bei BARDEHLE PAGENBERG und einer der beiden Leiter der Patent Litigation Group der Kanzlei. Er lehrt Patentrecht an der TU München und der University of Washington School of Law. Er ist ferner Chair des Dispute Resolution Commitee von LESI und ausgebildeter Wirtschaftsmediator (MuCDR).

Seine anwaltliche Praxis ist fokussiert auf Patentstreitsachen in allen technischen Gebieten nebst Lizenzrecht und Technologietransfer. Tilman Müller-Stoy hat besondere Erfahrung in der Koordination länderübergreifender Prozessserien sowie bei der Erstellung, Bewertung, Durchsetzung von und Verteidigung gegen Lizenzprogramme(n) in den Bereichen der Telekommunikation und Elektrotechnik, vor allem auch mit Bezug zu SEPs und FRAND Lizenzen. Er wird seit Jahren in allen wesentlichen Rankings als einer der führenden Rechtsanwälte für Patentstreitsachen in Deutschland empfohlen.

Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb, München, Raum E10

Die Deutsch-Russische Juristenvereinigung e.V. veranstaltet in Kooperation mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb die Tagung "Aktuelle Fragen des geistigen Eigentums im deutsch-russischen Rechtsverkehr".

Hier finden Sie die Einladung mit dem Tagungsprogramm und der Referentenliste zum Download

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, Zweibrückenstraße 12, 80331 München

As the world we know is changing at an incredible pace, there are predictions that 40 percent of the world’s leading companies will not exist in a meaningful way after the next decade if they do not adequately prepare themselves for this era. Undoubtedly, the fourth industrial revolution is about to create a world in which virtual and physical systems cooperate with each other in a flexible way. It is changing how we work, live and relate to one another – and the very essence of what it means to be humane.

Recognizing this imperative need to discuss and redefine ethical standards and regulations in innovation and the leadership styles required across all sectors, the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and the World Forum for Ethics in Business in partnership with the European Patent Office, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and the Peter Löscher Chair for Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich are organizing the ”Munich Conference Series on Ethics in Innovation.” The first conference will take place from 26-27 June 2017 at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich and will focus on Information and Communication Technologies with special emphasis on innovations in the digital age, including artificial intelligence, internet of things and big data.

The conference will bring together 300 global thinkers and leading experts from academics, business, politics and NGOs and will address central questions such as:

• Innovation 4.0: Can growth really be the main guiding principle of the fourth industrial revolution? How can we ensure that this revolution is empowering and human-centred, rather than divisive and dehumanizing?
• Leadership 4.0: What type of leadership is needed for organizations to be able to innovate and transform in the speed needed?
• Education 4.0: Can value-based education be an answer to the need for adequate leadership?
• Corporate Social Responsibility 4.0: How can we assure that the fourth industrial revolution does not devour its own children but actually creates shared value?

Confirmed speakers include amongst others Prof. Dr. Ferdi Schüth, Vice President, Max Planck Society, Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge, Peter Löscher Chair of Business Ethics at TU Munich, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, World Forum for Ethics in Business, Jo Leinen, Member of the European Parliament, Jaan Tallinn, Co-founder of Skype, Robert Hansor, Director of Global Sustainability Policy and Systems at Huawei Technologies, and Prof. Dr. Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford.

The research linked to the Ethics in Innovation Conference and the World Youth Forum is being conducted by an international team led by Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, Prof. Dr. Christoph Lütge, Dr. Mrinalini Kochupillai and Dr. Arul Scaria.

Program

Max Planck Institute, Munich, Room 313

There is a longstanding debate about whether technological innovation enables the rise of new entrants, or reinforces incumbent advantages. The ongoing digital transformation of medicine represents a unique opportunity to revisit this debate in the context of health care, an industry that now represents nearly 18% of the U.S. economy. In 2016, over 700 medical devices containing software were cleared for marketing by the FDA, almost double the number approved a decade earlier. What types of firms are most likely to lead digital innovation in health care? And do traditional factors such as geographic specialization, experience, and firm revenues predict this type of innovation? We use unstructured text data on new medical devices, recovered through automated scraping, to study digital innovation in this industry. Using supervised document classification and other natural language processing tools, we analyze the content of over 33,000 devices over the years 2002-2016. We first document the growth of software and networking capabilities and find significant heterogeneities across medical specialty areas. We then use detailed firm data to understand the characteristics of the firms bringing digital technologies to market and find strong evidence for the importance of firm experience with software products. VC funding and location in a cluster are predictors of follow-on digital innovation, but not novel innovation, while public firms are more likely to engage in first-time product digitizations. We find several pieces of evidence that support within-firm positive spillovers from software inclusion in one product to another, consistent with a low marginal cost of doing so.

Contact person: Dr. Fabian Gaessler

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room 313

We document the causal effect of simple bonus incentives on performance in a non-routine, cognitively demanding, interactive team task. These tasks are more and more important in the economy and at the same time understudied. We conduct a field experiment and show a causal positive effect of incentives on the completion probability and the overall completion time of the task. Using several experimental treatment variations we shed light on the importance of different bonus components. We study the framing of bonuses (as gains or losses) and investigate whether bonus incentives work due to i)the monetary reward or ii) the reference performance bonus incentives provide. We also investigate the robustness of the effect in an additional sample and study the reactions to bonus incentives by differently composed teams. Finally, we shed light on how bonus incentives affect teams' willingness to explore in the non-routine task. (joint with F. Englmaier, S. Grimm and D. Schindler)

Contact person: Dr. Marco Kleine

MIPLC, Marstallstr. 8, Room 220

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Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room E10

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Room 313

This paper estimates the effect of trade policy during the Great Liberalization of the 1990s on innovation in nearly 100 countries using international firm-level patent data. The empirical strategy exploits ex-ante differences in firms’ exposure to countries and industries, allowing us to construct firm-specific measures of tariff cuts. This provides a novel source of variation that enables us to establish the causal impact of trade policy on innovation. Our results suggest that trade liberalization has economically significant effects on innovation and, ultimately, technical change and growth. According to our estimates, a substantial share of global knowledge creation during the 1990s can be explained by trade policy reforms. Furthermore, we find that the increase in patenting reflects innovation, rather than simply more protection of existing knowledge. Both improved market access and more import competition contribute to the positive innovation response to trade liberalization (joint work with Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe).

Contact person: Laura Rosendahl Huber, Ph.D.

From May 29 to 31, 2017, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition will jointly organize the second Munich Summer Institute.

The Summer Institute 2017 will focus on three areas:

• Digitization, Strategy and Organization (chairs: Jörg Claussen and Tobias Kretschmer),
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (chair: Dietmar Harhoff), and
• Law & Economics of Intellectual Property and Innovation (chair: Stefan Bechtold).

The goal of the Munich Summer Institute is to stimulate a rigorous in-depth discussion of a select number of research papers and to strengthen the interdisciplinary international research community in these areas.

Researchers in economics, law, management and related fields at all stages of their career (from Ph.D. students to full professors) may attend the Munich Summer Institute as presenters in a plenary or a poster session, as discussants or as attendants.

The Munich Summer Institute will feature three keynote lecturers, 18 plenary presentations and a daily poster session (including a poster slam). Paper presentations will be grouped by topics, not discipline or method.

The Munich Summer Institute will be held at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the heart of Munich. Partizipation is by invitation only. The organizers will fund travel and hotel expenses for all plenary speakers and hotel expenses for all poster presenters and invited discussants.

Key speakers are:

• Michael Frakes (Duke University),
• Ajia Leiponen (Cornell University), and
• Mirjam van Praag (Copenhagen Business School).

Paper selections will be announced at the beginning of March. The program of the Munich Summer Institute will be available on April 1, 2017. Final papers are due for circulation among conference participants on May 1, 2017. Accepted papers will be made available to conference participants on a protected website. Researchers who would like to attend the Munich Summer Institute without giving a presentation should contact one of the organizers by May 1, 2017.

More information is available at http://munich-summer-institute.org. Any questions concerning the Munich Summer Institute should be directed to Stefan Bechtold, Jörg Claussen, Dietmar Harhoff or Tobias Kretschmer.