2003-09-01 OECD Conference "Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance"

The procedings of the OECD Conference "Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance" held in Paris in September 2003 were published as a book with ISBN 92-64-01526-4.

The volume contains among others

• Part 1: Patents and Economic Performance: Establishing the Links
• Part 2: Changes in Patent Regimes
• Part 3: Patents, Entrepreneurship and Technology Diffusion
• Part 4: Intellectual Property Rights for Software and Services
  • 12 Brian Kahin: Through the Lens of Intangibles: What Patents on Software and Services Reveal about the System
  • 13 Jacques Mairesse and Pierre Mohnen: Intellectual Property in Services: What do we learn from Innovation Surveys?
  • 14 James Bessen and Robert M. Hunt: The Software Patent Experiment
  • 15 Stuart Graham and Deepak Somaya: The Use of Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks in Software: Evidence from Litigation
  • 16 Hartmut Pilch (FFII): Why are Software Patents so Trivial?
  • 17 Marie-Thérèse Huppertz (Microsoft): The Role of IPR for the Software Industry: A Changing Landscape?
• Part 5: Current and Future Policy Challenges

The US government, represented by its patent office, appeared rather displeased at the (cautiously) critical way in which the subject was taken up at OECD and said, in the closing speech of Ms Boland, that the US would seek to strenghten and expand the patent system through WIPO, WTO, bilateral agreements or whatever channel seemed suitable for this purpose and would not let OECD get in its way. In comparison, the representatives of the European Patent Office appeared very enlightened.