Standards, patents, and innovation.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER Conference on Standards, Patents, and Innovation, organized by Timothy Simcoe, NBER and Boston University, Ajay K. Agrawal, NBER and University of Toronto, and Stuart Graham, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, was held in Tucson, Arizona on January 20-21, 2012. These papers were discussed:

* Emek Basker, University of Missouri, "Raising the Barcode Scanner: Technology and Productivity in the Retail Sector"

* Henry R. Delcamp, Cerna, Mines ParisTech, and Aija Leiponen, Cornell University, "Innovating Standards through Informal Consortia: The Case of Wireless Telecommunications"

* Marco Ceccagnoli, Christopher Forman, and Wen Wen, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Patent Pools, Thickets, and the Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms"

* Joseph A. Clougherty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Michal Grajek, European School of Management and Technology, "International Standards and International Trade: Empirical Evidence from ISO 9000 Diffusion"

* Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Texas at Dallas, and Emanuele Tarantino, University of Bologna, "Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting"

* Kenneth Flamm, University of Texas at Austin, "A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive...