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