IPWatchdog Unleashed

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...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Fran Cruz , who is Senior Vice President of IP Solutions for Juristat, about how data, AI, and changing corporate economics are reshaping patent prosecution business development. The conversation frames a critical market reality: in-house IP teams are under sustained pressure to re...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn , speaks with Brent Bellows , a partner with Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies (KIPS) in Atlanta, Georgia, who has a Ph. D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in human genetics. Brent traces his path from graduate research in medical genetics and tumor-associated antigens to pat...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Hilary Preston, partner at Vinson & Elkins and co-head of its intellectual property and technology litigation practice. Preston outlines her evolution from a general litigator into a leading IP strategist, highlighting how deep technical fluency—grounded in her physics backgroun...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Matteo Sabattini about the structural forces shaping today’s global patent ecosystem. Sabattini discusses his return to Sisvel and his progression from engineering into intellectual property strategy, licensing, and policy advocacy. The conversation frames a core imbalance in the in...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed our host Gene Quinn has a candid conversation with Melissa Silverstein about both IP strategy and human side of IP, pivoting to discuss the struggles that some attorneys have with substance abuse. The first half of the conversation centers on a clear market correction in intellectual property strategy: portfolios are being forced to operate like b...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , the conversation between host Gene Quinn and patent broker Louis Carbonneau centers on a fundamental breakdown in the economic engine that has historically driven innovation. While innovation itself has not disappeared, the incentive structure that once enabled a repeatable cycle—innovate, patent, monetize, reinvest—has eroded. Large market part...

Send us Fan Mail The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been undergoing a quiet but meaningful transformation over the last 5-plus years. From a more traditional UN-style body into a service-driven, operationally focused global IP platform, WIPO is helping the entire global IP community. As Lisa Jorgenson, who is a Deputy Director of WIPO, explained in her recent conversation with...

Send us Fan Mail Corporate IP departments are under growing pressure to do more with less. Budgets are tightening, leadership increasingly expects patents to deliver measurable business value, and artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how patent work can be performed. What does this mean for the future of in-house patent teams—and for the law firms that support them? In this episode of IPWat...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we focus on an issue that has been quietly reshaping the patent industry for years but has gained new momentum over the last year or two.  Patent budgets are shrinking, expectations are rising, and nobody seems willing to admit what that combination actually means.  Companies continue to say that patents remain essential to protecting innovation a...

Send us Fan Mail What does it mean to be a prolific inventor in an era of corporate retrenchment, weakened patent rights, and risk-averse innovation culture? This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , host Gene Quinn explores that question with Fred Shelton—an engineer who has accumulated more than 3,000 patents over roughly two decades, primarily during his career at Johnson & Johnson. Shelton descr...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed , Gene Quinn speaks with Deborah Farone, founder of Farone Advisors and former Chief Marketing Officer of Cravath, Swain & Moore, about how lawyers—particularly in highly technical fields like intellectual property—can build thriving practices through disciplined, strategic business development. Farone emphasizes that effective marketing...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we discuss whether patent owners are better off facing post-grant challenges at the  Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) or the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). PTAB practitioners Matt Phillips and Kevin Greenleaf join host Gene Quinn for an examination of how patent owners and challengers...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed Gene Quinn speaks with Todd Walters and the two explore the current state of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice and the growing tension among stakeholders as policy changes continue to reshape post-grant proceedings. Both emphasized that the most striking development in recent PTAB discussions is the intensity of opinion from patent own...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed , Gene Quinn and Matt Johnson, Co-Chair of the PTAB Practice at Jones Day, take an in-depth look at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) nearly a decade and a half after its launch. Quinn and Johnson explain the viewpoint that the PTAB drifted from what many had initially expected, pointing to among other things the lengthy, merits focus...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed , Gene Quinn speaks with Megan Carpenter following her decision to step down as Dean of UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law after more than eight years. Carpenter reflects on rebuilding the institution’s IP-focused identity, restoring alumni trust, increasing enrollment and driving engagement growth, while explaining why builders—such as herse...

Send us Fan Mail In this edition of IPWatchdog Unleashed, Gene Quinn hosts a comprehensive discussion with Jim Carmichael, a former judge on the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and Brad Close, Executive Vice President of Transpacific IP. The trio explores the current state of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), examining recent changes, the impact on patent owners and litigation,...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed , Gene Quinn sits down with prolific inventor Gil Hyatt, exploring his innovative journey and aspirations to leave a lasting legacy. Gil, known for his significant contributions to the field of electrical engineering and microcomputers, shared insightful anecdotes about his early days, his pioneering work in artificial intelligence, and his ambiti...