On June 11, Garrard Beeney participated in IAM’s IPBC Global, which was held from June 10 to 12 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Garrard moderated a breakout session titled “A pooled approach,” which explored why patent pools and other collective licensing arrangements are back in the spotlight, how pools are tailoring their approach to new sectors and jurisdictions and whether pools will ever be able to regain their MPEG-2 heyday. Nader Mousavi also attended the conference.