Explore recordings and conference materials from events hosted by the Center for Transnational Law and Business at the USC Gould School of Law.
January 28, 2026
A panel of leading experts discussed the relationship between patents (including SEPs), innovation, and technology leadership, with a focus on trends/developments in the EU, UK, US and Asia. Panelists included Kirti Gupta (Cornerstone Research - moderator), Jamie Simpson (Council for Innovation Promotion), Jamie Lewis (U.K. Intellectual Property Office), Richard Vary (Bird & Bird), and Charles Eloshway (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office).
October 30, 2025
A panel of leading experts discussed the JFTC's new Smartphone Act regulation and other related digital enforcement actions that the JFTC has taken. Panelists included Daniel Sokol (moderator, USC Gould), Sayako Takizawa (University of Tokyo), Felicity Day (Google), Tatsuya Tsunoda (Nishimura & Asahi) and Yusuke Takamiya (Mori Hamada & Matsumoto)
September 30, 2025
A panel of leading experts provide an insightful overview and assessment of the Trump Administration's competition and antitrust enforcement policies
June 24, 2025
USC Capital Campus
Opening Keynote: "The State of U.S. Global Competitiveness and Innovation Leadership and the Role of Technological Leadership in Ensuring National Security"
Congressman Nathaniel Moran (R-TX)
Panel 1: Why Technological Leadership is Critical for National Security
Panel 2: The Intersection of Antitrust, Innovation & Technological Leadership
Panel 3: The Key Role of Reliable IPRs and the Rule of Law in Promoting Global Technological Leadership
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.
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.
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.
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:
Opening Keynote: State of the U.S. Global Competitiveness and Innovation Leadership with Dominic Keating, Acting Deputy Chief Policy Officer for Operations, USPTO
Panel 1: The Key Role of IPR in Driving U.S. Technology Leadership and Securing National Security
Moderator: Hon. Andrei Iancu, Sullivan & Cromwell
Panel 2: Global Trends in Patent Policies That Impact U.S. Competitiveness
Moderator: Dr. Urska Petrovcic, Qualcomm
Panel 3: Maintaining A Global Rules-Based Ecosystem to Strengthen and Protect IPR
Moderator: Adam Mossoff, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
January 22, 2024
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September 7, 2023
July 24, 2023
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
March 8, 2023
January 9, 2023
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
December 8, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Nov. 17, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
July 27, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
June 15, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
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| Richard A. Powers, Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division |
April 20, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
March 31, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
March 29, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Feb. 24, 2022
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
November 30, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Nov. 10, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
July 27, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
July 21, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
July 13, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
June 24, 2021
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
With Featured Keynote Speaker: USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
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.
| 8 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:50 a.m. | Opening remarks |
| 9 a.m. | Session I: Patent Trolls or Non-Practicing Entities? Michael Meurer (Boston University) David Schwartz (Northwestern University) |
| 10 a.m. | Session 2: Does Patent Holdup Exist? Jorge Contreras (University of Utah) Stephen Haber (Stanford University; Hoover Institution) |
| 11 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | Session 3: Can We Measure Patent Quality and Examiner Performance? Deepak Hegde (New York University) Saurabh Vishnubhakat (Texas A&M University) |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch: USPTO Director Andrei Iancu |
| 1:45 p.m. | Session 4: Is SEP/FRAND Policy on the Right Track? Kirti Gupta (Qualcomm) Michael Lawrence (Google) Anne Layne-Farrar (Charles River Associates) Douglas Melamed (Stanford University) |
| 2: 45 p.m. | Session 5: Report Card for the PTAB Brian Love (Santa Clara University) David Kappos (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP) Arti Rai (Duke University) Luke L. Dauchot (Kirkland & Ellis LLP) |
| 3:45 p.m. | Break |
| 4 p.m. | Session 6: Did eBay v. MercExchange Go Too Far? Jason Lo (Gibson Dunn and Crutcher LLP) Adam Mossoff (George Mason University) Ted Sichelman (San Diego University) Richard Gruner (University of Southern California) |
| 5 p.m. | Closing |
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 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:
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
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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.
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