IPWatchdog Unleashed

Send us Fan Mail On the heels of the PREVAIL Act passing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the very next day USPTO Director Kathi Vidal wrote on the Director’s Blog about how wonderful the PTAB has been, saying in part: “Since AIA proceedings began over a decade ago, almost 70% of challenged patents have been upheld at the PTAB.” This claim by Director Vidal initially made me speechless. Simply s...

Send us Fan Mail This week I speak with Josh Harlan, who is the founder and managing partner of Harlan Capital Partners, which is a privately held investment firm based in Palm Beach, Florida, and which focuses on asset-based investments, including investments backed by media and intellectual property rights, and specifically the monetization of streams of revenue back by intangible assets. During...

Send us Fan Mail Walt Copan joins us for a conversation about the role of science, technology and innovation in U.S. competitiveness and for U.S. national security.  As many of you no doubt know, Walt is a former Undersecretary of Commerce and served as the 16th Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a position for which he was unanimously confirmed by the Senate during th...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have a special guest—the Honorable Pauline Newman, Circuit Judge on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Judge Newman spoke at our annual Life Sciences program at IPWatchdog Studios on Tuesday, October 29. Her remarks were largely unscripted, although she did have some notes that she consulted from time to time during her nearly 45 minute presentation. Judge...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, we discuss patent prosecution with the director of intellectual property at one of the top five filing companies in the world. Sivon Kalminov is the Director the Intellectual Property Division at Canon USA, where he is responsible for managing the Division’s day-to-day patent prosecution work, which includes overseeing both the patent prose...

Send us Fan Mail This week we explore small and medium sized enterprises, often referred to simply as SMEs. And in particular, we take a look at how two different countries are working with their own small businesses to assist them with respect to innovation and intellectual property. To accomplish this, I turned to two friends – Mike McLean and Joe Doyle , who work to assist SMEs in Canada and Ir...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we have a special episode. At the end of September we held our annual all-topics conference, which we call IPWatchdog LIVE. This conference brings together some of the top thought leaders and newsmakers from the entire industry, with a variety of different backgrounds and people who focus on various different niche verticals within the IP communit...

Send us Fan Mail This week our conversation takes us on an international journey, more or less. Andras JOKUTI is an intellectual property lawyer with domestic and international experience in public IP policy and university technology transfer. He is the former Director-General for Legal Affairs of the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office, and he is a former Fulbright Scholar. Andras studied inte...

Send us Fan Mail This week we will change things up a bit. Until now our podcast has focused on conversations with newsmakers and interesting personalities. We won’t be giving that format up, but this week we will shift things to allow me to do a little ranting on a topic I’ve been thinking about more and more over the last several years; namely, do we still need, or even want, a Federal Circuit? ...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're going to tackle a question that has divided the patent innovation community for a generation. Depending on your perspective, patent trolls have been and continue to be a problem, or complaints about patent trolls have been greatly exaggerated. As is often the case when emotions are running high and there is so much money at stake, the truth probably lies somewhere...

Send us Fan Mail This week the tables are turned. As many of you know Eli Mazour is the founder of the Clause 8 podcast, and the podcast is known by its tagline as “the Voice of IP.” Indeed, for years Eli has been just that… the voice of IP… interviewing numerous people in the industry, from Federal Circuit Judges to Chief IP Counsel and political leaders, I even had an opportunity to sit with Eli...

Send us Fan Mail This week our conversation takes us in-house to discuss patent strategy and insights on how outside counsel can best work with in-house counsel to build a solid working relationship and actually deliver what the client wants and needs. My conversation is with Gary Lobel, who is currently senior patent counsel for Reckitt where he is responsible for global legal and intellectual pr...

Send us Fan Mail Last week we hosted our first annual Women’s IP Forum, which was a huge success. This program came about for several reasons. First, as many of you may know our “Masters Series” of events gets its name from the fact that those who are invited to speak on panels have true masters level knowledge and experience, often with speakers having at least a generation of industry experience...

Send us Fan Mail This week our conversation is with my friend John Rogitz, who is the managing patent attorney at Rogitz & Associates. John is a second generation patent attorney with more than 15 years worth of experience. He and his form work primarily in the software space, representing some of the largest video game companies in the world, which allows him to work not only on video games,...

Send us Fan Mail This week our conversation is with Josh Hartman, a partner at Merchant and Gould in the firm’s Washington, DC office, and the head of the firm’s ITC litigation practice. The International Trade Commission, or the ITC as it is commonly called, is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency that fulfills a range of trade-related mandates. And one of the primary areas...

Send us Fan Mail This week we journey inside the beltway into the world of politics, legislation and rulemaking, discussing innovation and patent politics with Chris Israel. Chris is currently a senior partner with ACG Advocacy, which is one of the premiere bipartisan government affairs and strategic consulting firms in Washington, DC.  During our conversation we explore much of what is happening...

Send us Fan Mail Our conversation this week takes us into the world of product licensing, and what we discuss will no doubt come as a bit of a shock to many patent practitioners and innovators in the high-tech and life sciences industries. This week I speak with Stephen Key, who is an inventor, entrepreneur, author and the founder of InventRight, which is a coaching company that helps independent...

Send us Fan Mail This week our conversation is with Patrick Kilbride, who is a public policy expert with significant expertise at the intersection between market economics, innovation and intellectual property. A former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative during the George W. Bush Administration, Kilbride has spent the last 15 years working on innovation policy at the United States Chamber...

Send us Fan Mail Our conversation today is with Corey Salsberg, who is the Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, which is one of the world’s leading and more innovative biopharmaceutical companies. During a wide ranging that goes for just over an hour, we discuss whether patents are to blame for high drug prices, and if not what is the real driver of drug prices in America. Ul...

Send us Fan Mail This week we journey into the world of Artificial Intelligence. The term Artificial Intelligence itself has largely become the generic term used to describe a variety of related but different concepts, often wrapping together AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI as if they all relate to the same thing, or as if there is a single technology that is, in fact, AI. These related but...

Send us Fan Mail For this episode of IPWatchdog Unleashed, Gene Quinn speaks with Brad Watts, who is Vice President for Patents and Innovation Policy at the Global Innovation Policy Center at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Recently Brad has written a number of articles posted to the GIPC blog which focus on Biden Administration proposals regarding march-in rights, federal funding for innovation, an...

Send us Fan Mail Ordinarily patent practitioners do not need to really think about prosecution laches, but laches has become a rather hot topic as the United States Patent and Trademark Office and courts have initiated what can only be characterized as an assault on an applicant’s statutory right to seek and file additional claims if those claims are supported by the initial disclosure.  Prosecuti...

Send us Fan Mail This week we venture into the world of patent monetization from the viewpoint of a patent owner and non-practicing entity. Our conversation is with Brad Close, a one-time patent prosecution attorney, one-time patent broker, and current patent owner engaged in patent monetization efforts, licensing and, of course, litigation.  Visit us online at IPWatchdog.com . You can also visit...

Send us Fan Mail This week our conversation is with Scott McKeown, a shareholder with Wolf Greenfield in the firm's DC office, and Steve McBride, a partner with Carmichael IP. In this wide ranging conversation we tackle what is happening at the United States Patent and Trademark Office and on Capitol Hill. We specifically address the proposed changes to terminal disclaimers and double patenti...

Send us Fan Mail This week our conversation will take us to Europe where the Unified Patent Court has just celebrated its first anniversary. And based on early indications the UPC seems comfortable granting preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to stop patent infringement.  Special guest: Tobias Wuttke. Visit us online at IPWatchdog.com . You can also visit our channels at YouTube , LinkedIn...