The Collaborative Convergence Series - Medtech, Minneapolis, MN, Moderator, "Biologics & Device" (March 2009).
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Speaker, "You Can't Patent That! Can You" and Judge, "A New and Exciting Game Show: Analyze that Contract" (February 2009).
Licensing Executive Society, Annual Meeting, Kissimee, FL, Moderator, "Managing the Gladiators - Surviving Patent Litigation" (October 2008).
Association of University Technology Managers, Eastern Regional Meeting, Boston, MA, Speaker, "Stem Cell Frontiers - Policy, Promise and Patents," (July 2008).
BIO 2007 International Biotechnology Convention, Boston, MA, Panelist, "Life After Merck KGaA v. Integra Life Science," (May 2007).
American Conference Institute, 8th Advanced Forum on Biotech Patents, Menlo Park, CA, Speaker, "Applying and Avoiding the Doctrine of Inherent Anticipation," (April 2007).
C5's 4th International FTO Forum, London, UK, Speaker, "Claim Interpretation and Risk Evaluation - Construing Claims," (March 2007).
American Conference Institute, 7th Advanced Forum on Biotech Patents, Boston, MA, Speaker, "Applying and Avoiding the Doctrine of Inherent Anticipation," (November 2006).
Practising Law Institute, Preparing Patent Legal Opinions, New York, NY, Speaker, "Patent Infringement and Freedom to Operate Opinions," (September 2006).
American Conference Institute, Freedom to Operate, New York, NY, Speaker, "Assessing the Impact of the Doctrine of Equivalents on Claim Interpretation and Non-Infringement Opinions," (September 2006).
Association of University Technology Managers, Central Regional Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Speaker, "Patent Strategies for Stem Cell Technology," (July 2006).
C5, Tactical and Practical Guide to Freedom to Operate, London, UK, Speaker, "Risk Evaluation Key Tips In Construing Claims," (July 2006).
LES/AUTM 2006 Spring Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Moderator, "Managing the Gladiators -- Surviving Patent Litigation," (May 2006).
American Conference Institute, 6th Advanced Forum on Biotech Patents, San Francisco, CA, Co-Chair, (February 2006).
American Conference Institute, A Tactical and Practical Guide to Freedom to Operate, New York, NY, "The Continuing Impact of Festo on Non-infringement Opinions,"
March 2005.
Practicing Law Institute, Preparing Patent Legal Opinions 2004, New York, NY, "Product Clearance and Non-infringement Opinions in a Post-Festo World," September 2004.
American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), Advanced Biotechnology & Chemical Patent Practice Seminars, "Research Tool Patents - Fight or Flight," Seattle, WA and Wilmington, DE, June 11 and 25, 2004.
BIO 2004 International Biotechnology Convention, Workshop moderator, "The Evolving Law of Research Tools," June 2004.
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, "Managing the Gladiators - Surviving Patent Litigation," March 2004.
American Conference Institute, A Tactical and Practical Guide to Freedom to Operate, New York, NY, "Legal Standards for Non‑infringement Opinions," April 2004, San Francisco, CA and November 2003, New York, NY.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, "The Utility Requirement -- Beyond Credibility," October 2003.
Practising Law Institute, Preparing Legal Opinions 2003, New York, NY, "Patent Infringement and Freedom to Operate Opinions," September 2003.
Practising Law Institute, Preparing Patent Legal Opinions 2002, San Francisco, CA, "Patent Infringement and Freedom to Operate Opinions," October 2002.
BIO 2002 International Biotechnology Convention, Toronto, Canada, "Patenting Leading-Edge Biotechnology," June 2002.
Yale University Biotechnology Student Interest Group, Speakers Series, New Haven, CT, "Patenting Transgenic Animals -- From the Harvard Mouse to 'Hello Dolly!'," April 2002.
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, "Commercialization of Agricultural Biotechnology from Academia," March 2002.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Mid-Winter Institute, Phoenix, AZ, "Litigation of Pharmaceutical Patents Under the Hatch-Waxman Act," January 2002.
American Conference Institute, Patenting Genomics, Proteomics and Complex Biotech, "Meeting the Requirements of the PTO=s Utility and Written Description Requirements," November 2001.
Strategic Research Institute, Pharma and Biotech -- Intellectual Property and Business Development, San Francisco, CA, "Strategies for Successful Biotech Patent Prosecution," April 2001.
Cambridge Healthtech Institute, Human Proteomic Project Conference, McLean, VA, "Patenting Proteomics," April 2001.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, "Practical Guide to Research Tool Patent Strategies: A Panel Discussion," May 2001.
AUTM, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, "Managing the Gladiators -- Surviving Litigation," March 2001.
ATCC, Biotech Patent and Licensing Forum, Arlington, VA, "Prosecution in View of the Written Description and Utility Requirements," September 2000.
AUTM, Central Regional Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, Workshop, "Anatomy of a Home Run -- The Carbovir Story," August 2000.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Advanced Biotechnology/Chemical Patent Practice Seminars, Program Coordinator and Speaker, "Patent Prosecution In View of the 1999 Revised Interim Utility and Written Description Requirement Guidelines," Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA, April and June 2000.
MNBIO, Symposium, "Genetically Modified Food -- Issues and Opportunities," Minneapolis, MN, "Protecting Innovation in Ag Biotech," April 2000.
AUTM, 2000 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Workshop, "Anatomy of a Home Run -- The Carbovir Story," February 2000.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, 2000 Mid-Winter Institute, LaQuinta, CA, "Strategies for Successful Biotech Prosecution in the PTO," January 2000.
BIO 1999 International Biotechnology Meeting, Seattle, WA, Session, "Patenting Early-Stage Biotechnology," June 1999.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Spring Meeting, Chicago, IL, "UC v. Lilly and its Progeny -- Back to the Future?," April 1999.
AUTM, Central Regional Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Workshop, "Patenting Early-Stage Technology," August 1998.
BIO '98 International Biotechnology Meeting, New York, NY, Session, "Patenting Transgenic Animals -- From the Harvard Mouse to 'Hello Dolly,'" May 1998.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Advanced Biotechnology/Chemical Patent Practice Seminar, "Prosecuting Patent Applications To Meet the Enablement and Written Description Requirements of § 112," New York, NY (Spring 1998).
AUTM, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, "Advanced Issues in Academic-Industry Relations," February 1998.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, "How To: Patent Transgenic Animals," October 1997.
Suffolk University Law School/Boston Patent Law Association, Second Annual High Technology Law Conference, Boston, MA, "'Hello Dolly!' -- Transgenic Animal Patents from the Harvard Mouse to the Cloned Sheep," September 1997.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Basic Biotechnology/Chemical Patent Practice Seminar, Speaker, "Drafting and Prosecuting Applications to Meet the Utility/How-To-Use Requirement of §§ 101/112," Arlington, VA, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA, Spring 1996.
AUTM, Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC, Workshop, "Patenting and Licensing Agricultural Biotechnology," February 1996.
AUTM, Central Regional Meeting, Ames, IA, Workshop, "Patenting and Licensing Plants and Animals," July 1995.
Wisconsin Intellectual Property Law Association and the University of Wisconsin Law School, Intellectual Property - Law and Practice, Speaker, "Methods of Medical Treatment - Suspects on Trial," May 1995.
American Chemical Society, 209th National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Speaker, "Owning Life -- Patents on Transgenic Plants and Animals," April 1995.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Basic Chemical and Biotechnology Patent Practice Seminar, Speaker, "Drafting and Prosecuting a Chemical Application to Meet Utility and Enablement Requirements," Boston, MA; Minneapolis, MN; Seattle, WA; Fall 1994.
AUTM, Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Workshop, "Advanced Patents," February 1994.
AUTM, Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, Workshop, "How To Dig Out Prior Art," February 1993.
AUTM, Central Regional Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, Workshop, "Difficult License Negotiations," July 1993.
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, "How To: Patent Agricultural Biotechnology," October 1993.
AUTM, Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, Workshop, "Optimizing Your Foreign Filing Program," February 1992.
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), Biotechnology Patent Conference, Washington, DC, Speaker, "Plant and Animal Patenting Strategies," April 1992.
AUTM, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Workshop, "Maximizing The Value of Outside Counsel," February 1991.
AIPLA, Annual Meeting, Crystal City, VA, "How To: Infringement Opinions In View of Recent Federal Circuit Opinions on Estoppel," October 1991.
AIPLA, Midwinter Meeting, Palm Desert, CA, Presentation to Chemical Practice Committee: "The Application of the Doctrine of Equivalents to Chemical Practice," February 1990.
Hamline Law School, Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Minneapolis, MN, Speaker, "Protection of Agricultural Intellectual Property," April 1990.
Society of University Patent Administrators, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Plenary Session Speaker, "Intellectual Property Law -- Troubling Trends and What We Can Do About It," February 1989.
ATCC, Biotechnology Patent Conference, Bethesda, MD, Speaker, "Gene Transfer in Plants -- Technology and Patent Strategies," April 1989.
American Chemical Society, 196th National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Panelist, "Technology Transfer: From Non-Profit Research to Profit," September 1988.
American Chemical Society, 194th National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Panelist, "Selected Aspects of Patent Law Affecting the University Inventor," September 1987.
