Dear Colleagues,
Please join us (co-organizers: Maria Roche, Jordan Bisset, and Mingtao Xu) for the #AOM2026 24th edition of The Patent PDW: Advances in Patent Research, New Data, Measures and Methods. Our all-star presenter (Gerard Hoberg, Dietmar Harhoff, Lee Fleming, and Jiao Luo) and discussant (Shane Greenstein and Florenta Teodoridis) team will be sharing exciting new work on and using patents. This will be a fun and informative session! We look forward to seeing you all there in Philly!
Date and Time: Saturday, August 1, 2026, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. (UTC-4)
Location: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Second Floor Mezzanine: Regency A, 1200 Market St, Philadelphia.
Presentations:
Gerard Hoberg (University of Southern California), "New Technology Sectoral Disruption"
Dietmar Harhoff (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition), "Patents and Publications Texts as Data – How to Utilize New Semantic Tools"
Lee Fleming (University of California, Berkeley), "Using AI to measure architectural innovation"
Jiao Luo (University of Minnesota), "Lobbying the Court"
See information on past AOM Patent PDWs at: https://patentpdw.wordpress.com/workshops/.
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Mingtao Xu
Tsinghua University
Beijing
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