First Assignment Spring 2022

For the first class, please read the following:

Pages 32-39 (I.B., Overview of Intellectual Property) in Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (if you have not taken an IP survey course, review this overview of intellectual property law)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3884159 (opens in new window)

Additional readings for all:

Kevin Rivette & Henry Nothhalf, & David Kline, Discovering New Value in Intellectual Property, https://hbr.org/2000/01/discovering-new-value-in-intellectual-property (opens in new window) (~10 pages)

Eryn Brown, Do patents invent innovation?

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2018/do-patents-invent-innovation (opens in new window) (~5 pages)

Watch “Role of IP when making investment decisions” from Columbia Tech Ventures https://player.vimeo.com/video/140664614 (opens in new window) (5 minutes)

Darrell M. West, Technology and the Innovation Economy, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1019_technology_innovation_west.pdf (opens in new window)

(12 pages)