- “Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Licensing,” WIPO-CEIPI Conference, University of Strasbourg, June 2022 (teaching patent licensing and patent law courses).
- “Patents, Innovation Policy, and National Security,” Roundtable hosted by Forum for Intellectual Property, January 2022 (co-organizer and moderator).
- “Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy,” Roundtable hosted by the Classical Liberal Institute—Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property Program, October 2021.
- “The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,” Roundtable hosted by University of Illinois Chicago School of Law and Fordham Law, September 2021 (discussant).
- “Innovation Policy and Patents,” Zoom Panel hosted by the Forum for Intellectual Property, June 2021 (panelist along with Andrei Iancu (moderator), Robert DeBerardine and Don Rosenberg).
- “Intellectual Property and the Constitution,” Roundtable hosted by the Forum for Intellectual Property, December 2020 (co-organizer and moderator).
- “Fireside Chat with USPTO Director Andrei Iancu the Patent System and the Innovation Economy,” Zoom Event with Director Iancu, September 2020.
- “Injunctions for Standard-Essential Patents: Safeguarding Innovation in the United States, Europe, and Beyond,” Zoom Event hosted by the Forum for Intellectual Property, August 2020 (panelist with Claudia Tapia, Christoph Ann, and Urška Petrovčič (moderator)).
- “Should the Government Confiscate the Coronavirus Vaccine?,” New Ideal Podcast, May 2020.
- “Innovation Capital,” IP Symposium, Hoover Institution (co-hosted by Classical Liberal Institute—Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property Program), January 2020 (co-organizer).
- “Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Licensing,” WIPO-CEIPI Conference, University of Strasbourg, June 2019 (teaching patent licensing policy and patent law courses).
- “How the U.S. Lost Its Gold Standard Patent System and How to Get it Back,” Institute for Policy Innovation World IP Day Celebration, April 2019.
- “LeadershIP,” Washington, D.C., March 2019 (panelist, “The IP Policy Landscape: US and The World”)
- “Reforming Patent Reform,” University of Southern California School of Law, February 2019 (panelist, “Did eBay Go Too Far?”).
- “Time to Call 911 (Emergency!) on 101: Is Patent Eligibility Doctrine Undermining U.S. Leadership in Innovation?,” IPO Annual Meeting, September 2018.
- “Administrative Cancelation of Patents: Regulatory Overreach at the Patent Office?,” Sixth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference, Federalist Society, April 2018.
- “The Administrative-Private Law Interface in IP,” Harvard Law School, March 2018 (panelist, “Oil States and the Constitutionality of Administrative Adjudication”).
- “Naples Patent Roundtable,” Leahy Institute of Advanced Patent Studies, February 2018 (panelist, “Lexmark and Patent Exhaustion”).
- “Perspectives on the PTAB: The New Role of the Administrative State in the Innovation Economy,” conference co-sponsored by CPIP and CSAS, November 2017 (organizer and moderator of panels).
- “The Future of Constitutional Liberty in America,” Liberty Fund Roundtable, November 2017.
- “Real IP Reform,” CPIP Fifth Annual Conference, October 2017 (presentation, “Divorcing Patent Law From Antitrust Law”).
- “Is Administrative Review of Granted Patents Constitutional?,” Duke Law School Center for Innovation Policy, September 2017 (panelist, “Oil States Impact on the Administrative State”).
- “America as a Place of Innovation: Great Inventors and the Patent System,” Smithsonian National Museum of American History, February 2017 (organizer and panelist).
- “Congress vs. Courts: What is a Patentable Invention?,” Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention, November 2016 (organizer and panelist).
- ”Web 3.0,” CPIP Roundtable, November 2016 (organizer and participant).
- “Cycles of Innovation and Litigation,” CPIP Annual Conference, October 2016.
- “Solutions to the 101 Problem,” CPIP Summer Institute, August 2016 (organizer and panelist).
- “Section 101 and the Life Sciences,” Advanced Patent Law Institute at U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, March 2016 (panelist speaking on the Sequenom case).
- “Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship,” CPIP, November 2014 – January 2016 (organizer & commentator for the Edison Fellows over four conference meetings).
- “Section 101 Working Group,” CPIP Roundtable, George Mason University School of Law, December 2015 (organizer & discussant).
- “Patented Innovation in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries,” CPIP Roundtable, Hilton Head, South Carolina, May 2015 (organizer & discussant).
- “Section 101 Working Group,” CPIP Roundtable, George Mason University School of Law, December 2015 (organizer & discussant).
- “Copyright’s Republic: The Contribution of Copyright to Culture, Freedom, and Human Flourishing,” CPIP Roundtable, Nashville, TN, October 2014 (organizer & discussant).
- “Patent Rights and Remedies,” CPIP Research Symposium, George Mason University School of Law, June 2014 (organizer & discussant).
- “Patented Innovation in Software and Software-Related Technology,” CPIP Roundtable, Cape Coral, FL, May 2014 (organizer & discussant).
- “The Internet and IP Rights: Friends or Foes?,” Hudson Institute, May 2014 (invited speaker).
- “The History of Patents,” LeadershIP Conference, March 2014 (invited panelist speaker).
- “Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship,” CPIP, July 2013 – February 2014 (organizer & commentator for the Edison Fellows over three conference meetings).
- “Patentable Subject Matter,” CPIP Roundtable, Fenwick & West (Silicon Valley),
January 2014 (organizer & discussant). - “Innovation, IP and Jobs: The Economic and Innovation Role of the U.S. Patent System,” Washington, D.C., September 2013 (invited panelist speaker and interviewer of Judge Kathleen O’Malley).
- “Copyright, Creativity, and Commercialization,” CPIP Roundtable, Laguna Cliffs, CA, June 2013 (organizer & discussant).
- “Standard-Setting Organizations and Standard-Essential Patents,” CPIP Roundtable, George Mason University School of Law, June 2013 (organizer & discussant).
- “A Discussion with Chief Judge Randall Rader,” Moderated Teleforum, April 2013.
- “Patents in an Age of Software,” Roundtable Participant, George Washington University School of Law, March 2013 (invited participant).
- “Patented Inventions and Promoting Innovation,” CPIP Roundtable, California, March 2013 (organizer & discussant).
- “Invention and the Mobile Economy,” Brookings Institution, March 5, 2013 (panelist).
- “Are Patents Property Rights or Regulatory Entitlements?” Debate with Professor Mark Lemley, Federalist Society at Stanford University Law School, January 2013.
- “Is the Patent System Working or Broken? A Discussion Between Judge Posner and Judge Michel,” Federalist Society Teleforum, December 19, 2012 (organizer and moderator).
- “Software Patents: Boon or Bane for Technological Innovation?,” Federalist Society Teleforum, November 6, 2012 (panelist).
- “A Primer on Trade Secrets,” The America Invents Act: How the Legal Implications of the AIA Will Affect Best Business Practices – A Survival Manual conference, IEEE-USA, October 22, 2012 (speaker).
- “Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy?,” Federalist Society Teleforum with Professor Richard A. Epstein, October 17, 2012 (organizer and moderator).
- “Will Billions in Patent Lawsuits Kill Smartphone and Tablet Innovation?,” speaker on panel for congressional briefing organized by Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, October 16, 2012 (audio available at http://www.netcaucus.org/audio/2012/20121016mobilepatents.mp3 ).
- “Free Speech and Intellectual Property Rights,” Free Speech Dialogues, UT-Austin, September 2012 (spoke on panel with Neal Netanal and Robert Levine).
- “What do Sewing Machines and Smart Phones Have in Common?,” Patent & Trademark Office, July 2012 (invited presentation by PTO Director David Kappos).
- “Patent Aggregators,” at the Patent Disputes 2012: Patent Reform and New Models for a New Market Conference, Washington, D.C., June 19, 2012 (panelist).
- “Promoting Innovation from Sewing Machines to Smart Phones,” World IP Day Conference (co-sponsored by Licensing Executives Society and the PTO), Patent & Trademark Office, April 26, 2012.
- “Supreme Court’s Decision in Mayo v. Prometheus,” Federalist Society SCOTUSCast Podcast, March 26, 2012.
- “Post-Oral Argument Analysis in Mayo v. Prometheus,” Federalist Society SCOTUSCast Podcast, December 16, 2011.
- “First to File,” Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) PTO Day Conference, Washington, D.C., December 5-6, 2011 (panelist with Robert Armitage and Dale Lazar).
- Federalist Society Supreme Court Preview Panel, National Press Club, September 2011 (discussing Mayo v. Prometheus and Golan v. Holder).
- “Supreme Court’s Decision in Microsoft v. i4i,” Federalist Society SCOTUSCast Podcast, June 2011.
- “The America Invents Act: First to File versus First to Invent?,” Federalist Society Podcast, June 2011 (panelist with Professors Timothy Holbrook, F. Scott Kieff, and David Olson).
- “Just a Minor Fix in Patent Reform? Qui Tam Actions and the False Marking Statute,” Federalist Society Podcast, April 8, 2011 (organizer and moderator of panel).
- “Patent Term Adjustment: The Next Chapter from Novartis v. Kappos,” Intellectual Property Owners Association Podcast, August 2010 (panelist).
- “Patents in the Supreme Court: Bilski v. Kappos,” Federalist Society Podcast Debate, August 2010 (organizer and moderator of debate between Professors David Olson and John Duffy).
- “Normative Foundations of Intellectual Property: Two Viewpoints,” American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, December 2009 (Paper Presentation: “A Value-Based Theory of Intellectual Property”).
- “Patent Licensing in a Post-Quanta World,” Federalist Society Podcast, August 2009 (organizer and moderator of panel discussion with Richard A. Epstein, Mark A. Lemley, F. Scott Kieff, and Fred von Lohmann).
- “Supreme Court’s Grant of Certiorari in Bilski v. Doll,” Federalist Society SCOTUSCast Podcast, June 2009 (Moderator of debate between Professor Michael Risch and Professor Joshua Sarnoff).
- “Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship of Richard A. Epstein,” University of Tulsa College of Law, March 2009 (Paper Presentation: “Simple Rules for Complex Innovation”).
- “Foundations of Intellectual Property Reform,” University of Pennsylvania Law School, January 2009 (Paper Presentation: “The Use and Abuse of IP at the Birth of the Administrative State”).
- “State-Building and Citizenship in America, 1763-1920,” Legal History Roundtable at Georgetown University Law Center, September 2008. (Moderator for Panel: Customs and Commerce in Antebellum America).
- “Patents and the Commercialization of Innovation,” George Mason University School of Law, May 2008 (Paper Presentation: “Commercializing Property Rights in Inventions: Lessons for Modern Patent Theory from Classic Patent Doctrine”).
- “Intellectual Property/Property,” UC-Berkeley Law, October 2007. (Paper Presentation: “Conceptualizing Patents as Property: How Property Defines the Exclusive Right(s) in Patent Law”).
- “Is Intellectual Property ‘Property’? Pharmaceutical Patents and Regulatory Takings,” Debate at the University of Richmond School of Law, February 2007 (debated Professor Shubha Ghosh).
- “Patent Law: Recent Developments and Proposals for Reform,” conference co-hosted by Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law, October 2006 (speaker).
- “Eminent Domain, Intellectual Property, and Small Business.” National Bar Association Annual Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, August 2006.
- “Intellectual Property and Property: Marriage or Misfit?” AALS Mid-Year Meeting, June 2006. (Presentation: “Patents, Property, and the Right to Exclude”).
- “Property Law, Takings and Health Law,” Health Law Teachers Conference, University of Maryland School of Law, June 2006. (Presentation: “First, Do No Harm: Canadian Drug Imports, Innovation, and the Design Limits of Patent Law” (with co-author, Eric R. Claeys)).
- “By Any Other Name: Intellectual Property as ‘Property’” at the conference, “Intellectual Property: Back to Basics,” hosted by the Federalist Society, Washington, D.C., June 2006.
- “The History of Intellectual Property Rights.” American Society for Legal History, November 2005. (Presentation: “Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought About Patents: Reconsidering the Patent ‘Privilege’ in Historical Context”).
- “Life, Liberty, and Intellectual Property.” Debate hosted by Federalist Society Intellectual Property Practice Group, October 2005. Debate Opponent: Professor Tom W. Bell.
- “Public Use Strikes Back: Eminent Domain after Hathcock and Kelo.” Hot Topics Panel, AALS Annual Meeting, January 2005 (Panel Moderator and Organizer).
- “The Federalist Papers.” Liberty Fund Colloquium, December 2004.
- “The Death of Poletown: The Future of Eminent Domain and Urban Development After County of Wayne v. Hathcock.” Michigan State University College of Law, November 2004. Symposium issue published: 2004 Mich. St. L. Rev. 897 (Conference Organizer).
- “Intellectual Property.” Panel at Law & Society Association Conference, Chicago, May 2004 (Presentation: “Demystifying Justice in Patent Law”).
- “Conceptualizing Foundational Metrics.” The Association of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Connecticut School of Law, March 2004 (Presentation: “Enjoying the Fruits of One’s Labors”).
- “Black Acre and Black Beauty: Strange Bedfellows or A Happy Marriage.” Intellectual Property, Sustainable Development, and Endangered Species: Understanding the Dynamics of the Information Ecosystem, Michigan State University College of Law, March 2004 (Presentation: “Property Policy and Patents”).
- “Natural Rights and Copyright.” Promoting Markets in Creativity: Copyright in the Internet Age, a conference hosted by the Progress & Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Tech Center, June 2003 (Presentation: “Is Copyright Property? A Comment on Richard Epstein’s ‘Liberty vs. Property’”).
- Politics, Law and Property Conference, Ashland University, March 2003 (Paper Presentation: “The Development and Meaning of the Modern Concept of Property”).
- Student Conference on Philosophy and Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, October 1993 (Paper Presentation: “Discovering Legal Obligation through Raz-Colored Lenses”).