First Assignment Spring 2025

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 (that's okay! the first day will get you up to speed with everything you need for understanding this course or provide a refresher for those who took IP already) and then we'll discuss how law shapes innovation. Some of the discussion of these materials will span into the second class session. A syllabus will be posted on Blackboard on the first day of class and will be updated throughout the semester as we add guest speakers.

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/content/article/society/2018/do-patents-in… (~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 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.