Welcome to Innovation Law! We will begin with a brief intro to intellectual property law for those who haven't taken an IP class yet and then discuss how law shapes innovation.

Pages 33-40 (I.B., Overview of Intellectual Property) in Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4507044

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

Eryn Brown, Do patents invent innovation?
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2018/do-patents-invent-inn… (~5 pages)

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

Darrell M. West, Technology and the Innovation Economy, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1019_technology_in…
(12 pages) (we will continue our discussion of this on the second day)

Also, this is a small class and I'd love to hear from you what you most want to cover this semester and your favorite ways of learning. Please come to class or email me (c.j.laser@csuohio.edu) with some ideas of your favorite topics to explore, e.g., tax policy, medical and pharmaceuticals, race & gender and IP law, AI, Taylor Swift, etc.