What Patents Really Do: Historical Perspectives on Current Debates

Michael Andrews——Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Jonathan Barnett——Professor of law and director, Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California

Christopher Beauchamp——Professor, Brooklyn Law School

Sean Bottomley——Research fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany

Gerardo Con Diaz——Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis

Richard Epstein——Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Catherine Fisk——Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Alexander Galetovic——Professor of economics, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile; visiting fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; instructor, Hoover IP² Summer Institute on the Economics and Politics of Innovation

Stephen Haber——Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, professor of political science, of history, and (by courtesy) of economics, Stanford University; director, Hoover IP²

Wesley Hartmann——Professor of marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business; member, Steering Committee, Hoover IP²

Philip T. Hoffman—Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and professor of history, California Institute of Technology

John Howells——Associate Professor, Department of Management, Aarhus University

Ron D. Katznelson——President, Bi-Level Technologies

Zorina Khan—Professor of economics, Bowdoin College; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Benjamin Kwitek—President and CEO, InterForm Incorporated; instructor of entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Innovation Program, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; member, Hoover IP² Advisory Board

Naomi Lamoreaux—Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History and chair, department of history, Yale University; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Ron Laurie—Chairman, InventionShare; cofounder and managing director, Inflexion Point Strategy, LLC; director, WiLAN, Inc.; member, Hoover IP² Advisory Board

Ross Levine——Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; research associate, NBER; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Scott Masten——Professor of business economics and public policy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Damon Matteo——CEO, Fulcrum Strategy; member of the Board, Tsinghua University (Beijing) Law School, Center for Intellectual Property Law; member, Hoover IP² Advisory Board

Victor Menaldo——Associate professor of political science, affiliated faculty at the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, affiliated faculty of Near and Middle Eastern studies, University of Washington; instructor, Hoover IP² Summer Institute on the Economics and Politics of Innovation

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette——Associate professor, Stanford Law School

Nicolas Petit—Professor of law, University of Liege (Belgium); research professor, University of South Australia; visiting scholar, Hoover Institution

Paul Rhode——Professor and chair, Department of Economics, University of Michigan; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Henry Smith——Fessenden Professor of Law and director, Project on the Foundations of Private Law, Harvard Law School; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Richard Sousa——Research fellow, Hoover Institution; member, Hoover IP² Steering Committee

Steve Usselman——Professor, School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Lew Zaretzki—Managing director, Hamilton IPV