GELP Activities and Events
August 2006-July 2007
Events listed in reverse chronological order for each category:
May 3-4, 2007
Conference: Enabling Innovation for Global Health
Rhodes Conference Room, Terry Sanford
Institute of Public Policy
This conference brought together strategic partners and experts working towards alternative approaches to innovation and intellectual property rights in health, novel approaches to reengineering the process of drug discovery and development, and humanitarian licensing for health technologies.
For information, contact Corrina Moucheraud-Vickery (corrina.mv@duke.edu).
Organized with the support of the Open Society Institute, the Duke Global Health Institute, and the Duke Center for Public Genomics (the latter funded by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy).
March 28, 2007
Conference: The "Business" of Intellectual Property
8:30am - 5:30pm
Fuqua School of Business, Geneen Auditorium
Registration required: http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/centers/cei/events/symposium/
Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Fuqua School of Business hosted a one day symposium on the management of intellectual property in the information technology, telecommunications, life science and entertainment industries, with a focus on patents. World-class leaders in devising and excuting IP-based business models conveyed their views on best practices for the management of IP. The program included the following four sessions:
- New business models: The monetization and valuation of IP
- Integration of IP management into business strategy: the management of in-licensing, out-licensing and litigation
- Small firm licensing, university technology transfer and venture creation
- The politics of IP in the United States and abroad
Major funding for this conference was provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, with additional support from Price Waterhouse Coopers, Thinkfire, and the Duke Center for Public Genomics (the latter funded by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy).
March 2, 2007
Panel: Synthetic Biology-- The Intellectual Property Puzzle
9:00am - 12:00 noon
Duke Law School, Rm 4048
Because synthetic biology operates at the confluence of biology and information technology, many of the issues regarding patent thickets and intellectual property in standard setting that have come up in information technology may come up in synthetic biology as well. Even outside the standards context, a host of patents raise concerns about intellectual property impediments to R&D. At the same time, patents on certain technologies are likely to be necessary for purposes of attracting venture capital and appropriating rents from innovation. Thus synthetic biology presents an important case study of the challenges that new technology can pose for intellectual property.
9:00 am Overview of science: Speaker, Drew Endy, MIT (Biological Engineering)
10:00 am Overall framing of IP issues: Speakers: Arti Rai and James Boyle, Duke Law School
11:00 am Presentation of "patent landscape": 1) foundational patents; 2) patents on large-scale gene synthesis technology; 3) patents on "chasses" for synthetic biology parts, devices, and systems; 4) patents on DNA-binding proteins. Speakers: Arti Rai and Sapna Kumar, Duke Law School.
Sponsored by Duke law professors Arti Rai & James Boyle, the Duke Center for Public Genomics, and MIT. This event was made possible in part by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy.
October 25, 2006
Public Symposium: Cultures of Intellectual Property
8:30 am - 1:00 pm, Breedlove Room (Room 204, Perkins Library)
This half-day workshop was intended to bring ethnographic studies in this area, with a primarily critical and qualitative sensibility, into conversation with the law and policy scholarship being conducted through the Center for Public Genomics housed at Duke' s IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy. Featuring the work of young scholars (PhD candidates and junior faculty members), the gathering focused on two themes as they relate to intellectual property: (1) genomics and informatics and (2) global health.
Invited participants were Jason Cross (Cultural Anthropology, Duke University), Kristin Peterson (Anthropology, Michigan State University), Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Anthropology, University of California - Irvine), Jennifer Reardon (Sociology, University of California - Santa Cruz), Elta Smith (Public Policy, Harvard University), Kimberly TallBear (American Indian Studies, Arizona State University). Duke discussants were Robert Cook-Deegan (IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy) and Rob Mitchell (English).
This event was made possible by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy.