FREE Smithsonian Program: "The Power of Patents and Prizes in American Inventing," Fri Sept 28, 1:00-2:30pm
Public Program: The Power of Patents and Prizes in American Inventing
Co-Presented by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
and the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP), George Mason University Law School
What is the best way to stimulate innovation—patents or prizes? Patents secure to inventors a 20-year property right in a new invention or discovery. Like other kinds of property rights, patents encourage inventors to create new technologies and to manufacture or license their innovations in the marketplace. Similarly, innovation prizes inspire inventors to tackle some of society’s most difficult challenges, from treating malaria to space travel. By offering cash rewards and positive publicity, prizes also incentivize the creation of new inventions.
Join a group of experts who will explore the relative advantages and disadvantages of promoting innovation through patents and prizes.
SPEAKERS:
Zorina Khan, Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College
Josh Malone, independent inventor and entrepreneur, Bunch O Balloons
Tom Nicholas, William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Moderator: Arthur Daemmrich, Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Closing Remarks: Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
DETAILS:
Friday September 28, 2018, 1:00-2:30pm
Wallace H. Coulter Performance Plaza, 1st Floor West
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets NW
Washington, DC USA
Directions: http://americanhistory.si.edu/visit/getting-here
Web Site: http://invention.si.edu/about/events/power-patents-and-prizes-american-inventing
Admission is FREE!