Past Conferences

Wednesday, March 25, 2025

A panel of leading experts discuss the most important IPR developments in China, Europe, and the U.S., and examine what should be the key priorities for the new administration to address.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Understanding how to create effective monopoly standards is difficult in antitrust. A panel of leading experts review where we are in making sense of the monopoly broth.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

A panel of leading experts hosted by the USC Gould Center for Transnational Law and Business (CTLB) discuss the current state of tying and bundling from an antitrust law, business and economic perspective, as well as examine possible changes under the new administration.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Private equity deals are under increased scrutiny by antitrust enforcers. How do we understand the antitrust implications to the private equity acquisition business model?

Panel:

• Daniel Sokol (USC Gould - Moderator)
• Kelly Fayne (Latham & Watkins)
• Paul Nary (Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
• Joanna Tsai (Cornerstone Research)

• Hon. Klaus Grabinski, Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court
• Hon. Paul Michel, Ret., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Charles Eloshway, USPTO

• Robert Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
• Rob Stien, InterDigitial
• Daniel Mullaney, Atlantic Council

Monday, January 22, 2024

Panel:

• Jonathan Barnett (Moderator), USC Gould School of Law
• Judge Klaus Grabinski, President, EU UPC Court of Appeal
• Kirti Gupta, Cornerstone Research
• David Kappos, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Former Director of USPTO
• Kathleen O'Malley, Sullivan & Cromwell, Former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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Thursday, September 7, 2023

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Monday, July 24, 2023
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

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Monday, January 9, 2023
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Thursday, December 8, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Thursday, March 31, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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Monday, June 24, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

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With Featured Keynote Speaker: USPTO Director Andrei Iancu

Friday, February 22, 2019
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Reform of the U.S. patent system has been in full swing for at least a decade, resulting in major legislative, judicial and regulatory developments. This conference will provide a venue for thought leaders in the academic, legal and policymaking communities to engage in an economically informed discussion of whether the patent reform process has taken steps that advance or hinder our innovation economy.

The Conference will consist of a morning and afternoon session, with a lunch featuring a keynote address by Andrei Iancu, Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The morning sessions will focus on empirical and other economic analysis relating to policy concerns surrounding non-practicing entities, patent holdup and patent quality. The afternoon sessions will leverage that analysis in discussing past and future reforms in patent and antitrust law to address these issues.

USC Gould School of Law, a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider, certifies that this activity qualifies for minimum continuing legal education credit in the amount of 5.25 hours.

Program - Friday, February 22

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credit:

CLE materials for Feb. 22 Reforming Patent Reform conference

The Center for Transnational Law and Business hosted a conference on the Application of Competition Policy to Technology and IP Licensing on Friday, November 10, 2017, at the USC Gould School of Law. The conference provided a full day of panels comprised of regulators from several international jurisdictions, in-house attorneys, law firm lawyers, economists and academic experts discussing matters related to the legal, economic and business impact that the intersection of competition policy and IP has on technology and IP licensing.

Keynote speaker Assistant Attorney General Makan Delharim gave a speech which indicated a significant policy shift in terms of the role of antitrust rules in the context of IP in the technology sector.

Conference panel topics included:

• The Revised DOJ/FTC Antitrust Guidelines for IP Licensing
• A Roundtable of International Competition Officials on the Extraterritorial Antitrust Regulation of IP Licensing Agreements
• Recent Jurisprudence Related to SEPs in International Jurisdictions
• Intersection Between IP and Competition Policy: SEPs and FRAND Licensing

Featured speakers included Claudia Berg of the Competition & Markets Authority, U.K.; Kathleen Bradish of the International Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice; Ian Connor of the Bureau of Competition, U.S. Federal Trade Commission; Roger Featherston of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission; Hiroyuki Odagiri of the Japan Fair Trade Commission; and Yuanting Wang of the Anti-Monopoly Bureau, Ministry of Commerce, China.

View videos of the panel sessions

Download speaker conference materials:

• Panel 1 - IP Licensing and Antitrust Guidelines - View from Different Jurisdictions
  • Download Odagiri slides
  • Download Tan slides

• Panel 2 - Intersection Between IP and Competition Policy: SEPS and FRAND Licensing
  • Download Barnett slides

• Panel 3 - Recent Jurisprudence Related to SEPs in International Jurisdictions
  • Download Yen slides
  • Download Bose slides

• Panel 4 - Enforcer's Roundtable - Extraterritorial Antitrust Regulation of IP Licensing
  • Download Featherston slides
  • Download Wang slides

The center held its inaugural conference on Antitrust Enforcement in a Global Context: Extraterritoriality and Due Process on January 13 and 14, 2017 at USC Gould.

Executives from Uber Technologies, Google, Amazon and Essential Patent led panel discussions on issues and challenges that companies face in addressing global antitrust enforcement, focusing on transparency, due process and comity in global antitrust proceedings. Panelists included regulators from several international jurisdictions, as well as in-house counsel, law firm attorneys and academics from around the world including China, Japan, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, Brazil, India, Hong Kong, Canada and the United States. The discussions spoke directly to the important and consequential legal questions that are affecting global business activity and the world economy.

Leading experts at the conference included Maureen Ohlhausen, commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission; Hideo Nakajima, secretary general of the Japan Fair Trade Commission; Vicky Eatrides, deputy commissioner of the Canadian Competition Bureau; Andy Chen, former commissioner, Taiwan Fair Trade Commission; Lynda Marshall, acting chief, Foreign Commerce Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division; and Yiqin Zhao, director of Economic Inspection Division, Competition Enforcement Bureau, State Administration for Industry & Commerce, China.

Video of Day 1 panel sessions featuring regulators and practitioners can be viewed here.