Insurance & Intellectual Property Innovation

Organized by the Insurance Law Center and the Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at the University of Connecticut, and the Geneva Association

This conference will explore the relationship between insurance, intellectual property and innovation. Can intellectual property promote innovation in the insurance industry? Can insurance for intellectual property promote innovation in other industries? The conference will bring together leading scholars in the fields of intellectual property and insurance with leaders in law and the insurance business. All sessions will begin by introducing fundamental intellectual property and insurance concepts to foster communication across the specialties of insurance, law, and intellectual property.

Topics to be addressed include:

• The market for intellectual property insurance and prospects for growth in the U.S. and Europe;
• The latest research on the role of insurance in markets for intellectual property;
• The role of government in facilitating markets in intellectual property and insurance;
• The experience of the U.S. documentary film industry with copyright infringement, fair use, and media liability insurance;
• The history and prospects of patents for business methods;
• The pros and cons of business methods patents as compared to alternative methods to foster and protect business innovation;
• The experience of the U.S. insurance industry with business methods patents.

Participants include:

• Tom Baker, Connecticut Mutual Professor and Director, Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut
• Luigi Buzzachi, Professor, Department of Business and Economics, Politicnico di Torino
• Frank Cuypers, Ph.D. (invited), Financial Risk Management, KPMG Ltd.
• Leib Dodell, President and CEO, Media/Professional Insurance
• Michael Donaldson, Donaldson & Hart Attorneys
• Anthony Falzone, Executive Director, Fair Use Project, Stanford Law School
• Robert Fletcher, CEO, Intellectual Property Insurance Services
• David A. Fox, Partner (invited), Cantor Colburn LLP
• Ken Goldstein, Worldwide Media Liability Manager, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
• Hillary Greene, Associate Professor and Director, Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic, University of Connecticut
• Robert M. Hunt, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Michael Knoll, Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
• Debra Kozee, President and CEO, C&S International Brokers
• Steven Kunin, Former Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Of Counsel to Oblon & Spivak
• Clarisa Long, Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Columbia University
• Willajeanne F. McLean, Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
• Michael Meurer, Michaels Faculty Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Boston University
• Richard Murray, Managing Director and Chief Claims Strategist, Swiss Re
• Mark Nowotarski, President, Markets, Patents & Alliances, LLC
• Gideon Parchomovsky, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
• Giuseppe Scellato, Department of Business and Economics, Politicnico di Torino
• Stefan Speyer, Allianz SE, Group Legal Services
• Amadee Turner, Q.C., Honorary Member of the European Parliament and primary author of the report to the European Commission on patent liability insurance
• Eskil Ullberg, Visiting Research Scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University