Suzanne Scotchmer

Suzanne Scotchmer

• Suzanne Scotchmer** (January 23, 1950 – January 30, 2014) was an American professor of law, economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a noted author on many economic subjects. She earned her B.A. from University of Washington magna cum laude in 1970, her M.A. in statistics from UC Berkeley in 1979, and her PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 1980.

Biography Scotchmer was raised in Pelican, Alaska, where her grandparents homesteaded after failing as gold rushers.

Death Scotchmer died on January 30, 2014, one week after her 64th birthday, following a brief bout with intestinal cancer.

Research *Picking Winners in Rounds of Elimination; 2012 *Ideas and Innovations: Which Should Be Subsidized?; 2011 *Verifiability and Group Formation in Markets; 2010 *Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies; 2010 *Cap-and-Trade, Emissions Taxes, and Innovation; 2010 *Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance; 2010 *Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it; 2009 *Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law; 2008 *Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products; 2006 *Still Looking for Lost Profits: The Case of Horizontal Competition; 2006 *Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm; 2006 *Innovation and Incentives (book); 2004. *Intellectual Property; 2005 *The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties; 2004 *Procuring Knowledge; 2003 *The Core and Hedonic Core: Reply to Wooders (2001), with Counterexamples; 2003 *Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools; 2000 *The Independent-Invention Defense in Intellectual Property; 1999 *On the Optimality of the Patent Renewal System; 1999 *Patent Breadth, Patent Life, and the Pace of Technological Progress; 1999 *Protecting Early Innovators: Should Second-Generation Products be Patentable?; 1998

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