This course was offered at Bocconi University in March 2021 and November 2022. All of the assigned readings are available online through the links in the syllabus, below.  

I. Introduction to Fintech (November 7-8, 2022)

• Douglas W. Arner, Jànos Barberis & Ross P. Buckley, “The Evolution of FinTech: A New Post-Crisis Paradigm?” (2015)

II. IP Protection for Innovations in Fintech (November 9-10)

• Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank (SCOTUS 2014)

III. IP and Business Strategy (November 15-16)

• Fisher & Oberholzer, “Strategic Management of Intellectual Property — An Integrated Approach,” California Management Review 55 (2013): 157
• Marco DiMaggio & Nicholas Platias, “Is Stablecoin the Next Big Thing in E-Commerce?,” Harvard Business Review, March 21, 2020

IV. Law Reform (November 17-18)

• Mathew Heim and Igor Nikolic, A FRAND Regime for Dominant Digital Platforms, 10 (2019) JIPITEC 38

Class Presentations

The notes for all of my lectures in this course are available in a “mind map,” which is available in the formats listed below. (Instructions on how to use one of these maps are available here.)

• iThoughts
• Freemind
• XMind
• Html5

The slide decks presented during class are accessible through the following links:

• Bitcoin Climate [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Bitcoin Crimes [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Blockchain [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Bloomberg [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Currencies [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Financial Crisis [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech Geography [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech Insurance [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech Inventive Step [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech IPRs [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech Patents [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech Trademarks [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech Scale [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Fintech Stage2 [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• ICOs [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Mobile Banking [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• NFTs [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Payment Systems [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• P2P Lending [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• RegTech [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Software_US [pdf] [Powerpoint]
• Spreadsheets [pdf] [Powerpoint]