8th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association
The Frontiers of IP
Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France
September 5-6, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

Telecom ParisTech will host the 8th annual conference of The EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) association in Paris, Sept. 5-6, 2013. Scholars and practitioners interested in the economic, legal, political and managerial aspects of intellectual property rights are encouraged to attend the conference with or without scientific paper presentation.

The conference will explore how Intellectual Property (IP) is related to the scientific and technological frontiers, to geographical frontiers as well as to competition policy or to contract law.

Topics of interest include:

Patentability subject matter, non-obviousness
Allocation of rights in patent pools
Standards and pools
Open innovation
International technology transfer, international issues in IP protection
Copyright in the digital era
IP and competition policy
IP and other incentives to innovate
Markets for patents
IP and contract law
IP licensing
Substitutability/complementarity between patents and trademarks
IP and science
University technology transfer, public-private partnerships

Articles can be submitted at http://www.telecom-paristech.fr/epip2013/

We will review extended abstracts but prefer full-length articles.

Deadline for submissions: June 3, 2013
Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2013

Selected articles will be published in the Proceedings of the conference.

Please send an email to epip2013@telecom-paristech.fr for further details and information.

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