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Education
Ph.D. Economics, Yale University
Additional Information
Dr. Putnam is an expert in intellectual property, industrial organization, applied microeconomics, technological change, and antitrust. He is currently a research associate at the Institute for Policy Analysis, and from 2001-2005 served as the Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund professor of the law and economics of intellectual property at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, both at the University of Toronto. Dr. Putnam has testified in patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, antitrust and contract actions, in Federal, state and bankruptcy courts, in international arbitration, before the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and before the Federal and Supreme Courts of Canada. He has also provided econometric analyses in differentiated products mergers approved by the FTC and the Antitrust Division. Previously, Dr. Putnam taught at Vassar College, the Columbia University Schools of Law and Business, Yale College, and the Boston University Graduate School of Management. Dr. Putnam received an NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant for measuring the value of corporate patent portfolios. His dissertation developed new microeconometric methods for valuing international patent rights. | 