AccelPro | Intellectual Property Law

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Craig Fisher, Talent Consultant & Author.   In a world where technology has made it easier than ever to overapply, Fisher explains what companies are doing to find qualified candidates, and what job seekers should be aware of before they...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Mary Mazzello of Kirkland & Ellis. Mazzello is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis’ New York office, where she specializes in intellectual property litigation. Her practice focuses on trademark, copyright, trade secret, and music royalty matte...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dr. Kristi Sawert of Fish and Richardson. Sawert has 15 years of experience at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including eight as an administrative patent judge, and is a Principal at Fish & Richardson in Washington.  We talk about...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with James (Jim) Pooley of James Pooley, PLC. Pooley is a veteran Silicon Valley trial lawyer with deep knowledge of trade secrets and patents who spent five years as manager of the international patent system (PCT) for the World Intellectual...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Joanna Brougher, Owner & Principal, BioPharma Law Group, PLLC. Brougher is a patent attorney who focuses on all aspects of services related to patents in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including patentab...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client relationship management and wellness. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we talk about making career transitions that a...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Coke Morgan Stewart, Senior Counsel at O’Melveny. Stewart is a seasoned intellectual property and appellate litigator with decades of experience in private practice and government service. She served as the second highest-ranking officer...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Stephen C. Hall, Partner at Wyatt. Hall is a patent attorney and former research and development chemist who specializes in patent creation and drafting patents for biotechnology, medical therapy, physical science and information process...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. We are coming to you a day early this week because of the Juneteenth holiday. We’re featuring a discussion on mediation with Mike Strauss, the co-founder of Strauss and Strauss. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Evan Naar, corporate counsel at WHP. Naar is the co-host of End Scene , an entertainment law podcast, and former Assistant General Counsel at Beanstalk.  Naar discusses licensing agreements, brand extensions, what practitioners should un...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with David Cain, patent attorney at Hauptman Ham. Cain is a patent attorney with 39 years of experience in the global IP landscape, specializing in patent preparation, prosecution and portfolio management. He focuses on artificial intelligenc...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Evan Zimmerman, CEO and co-founder of Edge .  Zimmerman is the co-founder of Edge, a Y-Combinator backed patent assistance platform which helps patent practitioners draft patents and disclosures. He is also founder of venture capital fir...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client relationship management and wellness. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Jonathan B...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Pablo Segarra, trademark attorney and founder of SideHustle. Law. Segarra discusses trademarks from the perspective of an attorney serving a client base of small and part-time businesses and side hustles.  We talk about Segarra’s transit...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Julie Burke, Expert Witness on US Patent Practice and Procedures at IPQuality Pro. Burke, a former patent scientist and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) quality assurance specialist, special program examiner and patent e...

Today, we are featuring a discussion with David Bellos and Alex Montagu about the history of copyright protection. Bellos is a professor at Princeton University with a distinguished background as a translator and biographer. Montagu is a founding Partner of MontaguLaw, P.C., a law firm that focuses primarily on intellectual property law, international commercial transactions and new media commerci...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Beth Toth,...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Jonathan Masur about real world prior art. Masur, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, specializes in patent law, administrative law, behavioral law and economics and criminal law. In this conversation, we talk about whet...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Yayoi Shionoiri, Lawyer for the Chris Burden Estate and the Nancy Rubins Studio & Sarah Conley Odenkirk, Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP. In this interview, Odenkirk and Shionoiri discuss public art commissions and the...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Angela Dunning, partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP .  In this interview, Dunning discusses her work in the Naruto v. Slater case, legal questions around authorship and artificial intelligence, class action lawsuits around...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee . Today we’re featuring a conversation with Tushar Ku...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Michael Snyder and Joseph Gushue, shareholders at Volpe Koenig. In this interview, Gushue and Snyder discuss key client misconceptions about intellectual property law, copyright and patents. Snyder and Gushue are cohosts of the IP Goes P...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation on copyright transformative use with Professor Ann Bartow.  Bartow is a professor whose work focuses on the intersection between intellectual property law and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law and feminist legal theory. In pa...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with professor Ann Bartow.  In this interview, Bartow discusses intellectual property law, copyright infringement, Campbell vs. Acuff-Rose, Weird Al Yankovic and questions of parody versus satire. Bartow is especially interested in the long-t...

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Rolf Claessen, Equity partner at Michalski, Hüttermann & Partner. In this interview, Claessen discusses the European Union’s Unified Patent Court and how the court’s establishment changes the patent law landscape in Europe for different...