IPWatchdog Unleashed

Send us Fan Mail Effective patent litigation requires more than command of the law and technology. It demands an advocacy strategy tailored to the audience, the forum, and the business stakes. Recorded at IPWatchdog’s recent Women’s Forum, this conversation is moderated by Katie O’Sullivan, Senior Counsel and U.S. Litigation Lead at Renesas Electronics. The discussion explores how experienced liti...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, generative AI’s accelerating adoption raises a critical question: can organizations move quickly without compromising their intellectual property? Recorded at IPWatchdog’s Women’s IP Forum, this panel opens with introductions from Gene Quinn before Stephanie Curcio leads a discussion with Marlene Valderramma, Kendra Ervin and Rinat Shangeeta abou...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with John Rogitz and Clint Mehall. The conversation examines subject matter eligibility declarations, or SMEDs, and whether this prosecution tool offers a meaningful path past Section 101 rejections—or creates a record that could undermine the patent owner during litigation. The discussio...

Send us Fan Mail What is a patent really worth—and how much of that value can its owner actually capture? This episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed features a panel of litigators and economists from IPWatchdog’s Women’s IP Forum examining the economics of patent licensing from both sides of the negotiating table. The discussion explores how licensing can generate revenue, protect customer relationships...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Nancy Braman. The conversation focuses on Nancy’s journey through intellectual property returns. From taking PLI patent bar review course before law school, to attending Franklin Pierce Law School, to spending more than three years writing and researching for IPWatchdog and now litig...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Fran Cruz and Marlene Valderrama. Recorded before a live audience following IPWatchdog’s Women’s IP Forum, the conversation brings together perspectives from Juristat and Halliburton to explore how authentic relationships drive business development, career advancement, and more effec...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, IPWatchdog President Renee C. Quinn , speaks with Coke Morgan Stewart about her time leading the USPTO and her new role as president and CEO of the Council for Innovation Promotion. Stewart describes the operational pressures she encountered at the agency, from the patent application backlog and hiring freeze to the challenge of leading a largely...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Steve Caltrider. Caltrider, Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and former General Patent Counsel at Eli Lilly, brings perspectives from nonprofit research and pharmaceutical practice to a central question: how does IP help move dis...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Hilary Preston. A partner at Vinson & Elkins and co-head of the firm’s intellectual property and technology litigation practice, Preston discusses the rapidly expanding AI data center ecosystem and the complex technology, infrastructure, and legal risks emerging alongside it. The...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Bijou Mgbojikwe , who is Senior Policy Counsel at the Entertainment Software Association. They discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping the video game industry and creating new challenges at the intersection of copyright, the First Amendment, right of publicity, content mod...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Robert Plotkin. A patent attorney, computer scientist, and longtime software and AI practitioner, Plotkin discusses the relationship between hardware and software innovation and why legal distinctions that ignore how technology actually operates can produce flawed patent analysis. Q...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , Gene Quinn examines why artificial intelligence is unlikely to eliminate experienced patent lawyers—but will expose practitioners whose work consists primarily of commodity production. AI is already transforming prior-art searching, claim comparison, application drafting, office-action responses, and portfolio analysis. The strategic opportunity...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Joel Meyer . An IP attorney and innovation strategist with more than 30 years of experience building and monetizing technology portfolios, Meyer joins Gene to examine how the AI transformation is reshaping innovation and IP strategy. Drawing on his experience with digital watermark...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , Brad Close, Phil Goter, Kyle Vallecillo, and Matheus Ramalho discuss enforcement driven economics. Continuing the podcast’s examination of patent monetization, the conversation moves beyond portfolio diligence to the far more difficult question of execution: what patent owners must understand once they are prepared to pursue licensing or enforce...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Martin Correa. Correa, whose work at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) focuses on the future of intellectual property. The conversation examines the danger of viewing IP solely as a legal instrument or barrier, rather than as infrastructure supporting investment,...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, we have a special episode moderated by Megan Carpenter , which took place during the IPWatchdog Patent Masters conference last month.  IPWatchdog founder, Gene Quinn, joins along with economist Jon Putnam , and patent litigators Glenn Forbis , and Mark Nelson . The crew examines how the 2023 amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence 702—and the Fede...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with B en Greenberg . An engineer and product-development specialist, Greenberg works with independent inventors, startups, and small businesses to transform early-stage concepts into functional prototypes, manufacturable products, and commercially viable opportunities. The conversation...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Anthony Del Monaco , David Goose , Josh Hartman and John White about one of the most important strategic decisions in patent disputes: choosing the right battlefield. In today’s patent environment, outcomes are shaped not only by the strength of the patent, but by where the dispute...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Dean Geibel and Karl Maersch . The conversation explores what patent owners must do before they can credibly monetize, license, sell, finance, or enforce a patent portfolio. Before any revenue strategy can succeed, companies first need to understand what they actually own, which as...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with former USPTO Director, Andrei Iancu . The conversation begins with Iancu’s path from engineering at Hughes Aircraft to intellectual property law, including his early years at the IP boutique Lyon & Lyon and his later experience as a leading patent litigator and law firm managin...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, features the closing panel conversation from IPWatchdog’s recent Patent Masters program.  Gene Quinn opens the conversation by arguing that the U.S. patent system is no longer functioning as a coherent innovation framework, but instead has become a fragmented mix of overlapping tribunals, inconsistent standards, procedural inefficiencies, and...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Rama Elluru , who is Senior Advisor for the Special Competitive Studies Project, which is a bipartisan non-profit initiative, which makes recommendations to strengthen America's long-term competitiveness for a future where AI and other emerging technologies reshape our nationa...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Alden Abbott , who is Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and former General Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission. Abbott brings a rare combination of antitrust, intellectual property, administrative agency, and law-and-economics experience...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with a panel of experts. This conversation was a part of the recent IPWatchdog Artificial Intelligence Masters program, and featured Carlo Cotrone , founder and principal consultant of Quartal IP, Robert Plotkin , author, patent attorney and founding partner with Blueshift IP, and John...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Kristen Osenga , who is the Julie & John Nowak Faculty Research Scholar & Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law. Osenga discusses her path from engineering to patent law, including her time at Finnegan and her c...