Richard Gilbert (professor)

Richard J. Gilbert is an American economist who served as Deputy Assistant General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in the White House from 1993 to 1995, and author of Innovation Matters: Competition Policy for the Knowledge Economy, published by M.I.T. Press. While at the U.S. Justice Department, Richard Gilbert led the development of Joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, Richard Gilbert was president of the Industrial Organization Society and from 2002 to 2005 the Chair of the department. Professor Gilbert has taken special interest in innovation and energy economics. Richard J. Gilbert now works as Emeritus from the University, as a consultant for Compass Lexicon and was on the Board of the East Bay College Fund Oakland Promise Association.

Career 
Richard Gilbert contributed to the improvement of the Joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust, Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property during the two years, 1993-1995 when he was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department. Until becoming a Deputy Assistant Attorney General Professor Gilbert was the director of the University of California Energy Institute. At the same time, he was an associate editor in several journals such as '[The Journal of Economic Theory], [The Journal of Industrial Economics] and [The Review of Industrial Organization]'.

Education 
B.S. Electrical Engineering at Cornell University 1966 
M.S. Electrical Engineering st Cornell University 1967
Ph.D from Stanford University 1976 

Research areas::
Intellectual Property
Research and Development
Energy Markets
Antitrust Economics

Sabbatical working for the Cambridge University 
Worked with expert economists in Bergen, Norway.

Recently published papers 
 Stepwise Innovation
Stepwise Innovation
 Licensing and Innovation with Imperfect Contract Enforcement
Licensing and Innovation
 Collective Rights Organizations: A Guide to Benefits, Costs and Antitrust Safeguards
Collective Rights Organizations: A Guide to Benefits, Costs and Antitrust Safeguards

References 

Category:Living people
Category:Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:American economists
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Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty
Category:United States Department of Justice officials