MIP podcasts

Kirupa Pushparaj made the leap to general counsel last August, having previously worked as deputy general counsel and intellectual property lead at the Jack Dorsey-owned fintech firm Square in San Francisco.  In Managing IP’s latest IP Corner Office Podcast, the now Palo Alto-based general counsel and corporate secretary for Step – a fintech start-up focussed on developing tools to help young peop...

Managing IP speaks to David Jones; executive director of the High Tech Inventors Alliance; Brad Watts, minority chief counsel of the Senate judiciary subcommittee on intellectual property; and David Pridham, CEO of non-practising entity Dominion Harbor. Speakers discussed the fact that Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts has ordered the Judicial Conference of the US to study judicial assignme...

In the third episode of the three-part podcast series by Adams & Adams on the IP enforcement of pharma in Africa, partners Danie Dohmen and Russell Bagnall, and in-house counsel Natasha Wright, talk to Managing IP about recent trends in pharmaceutical patent litigation in South Africa. The experts discuss the nuances of the enforcement environment in South Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic, sp...

In the second episode of the three-part podcast series by Adams & Adams on the IP enforcement of pharma in Africa, partners Jenny Pienaar and Kareema Shaik talk to Prin Shasiharan of Managing IP about pharmaceutical registration in the larger African markets. The international registration system counts many African states as members – but its use is patchy. Although the Madrid System is effec...

In the first of a three-part podcast series by Adams & Adams on the IP enforcement of pharma in Africa, experts Godfrey Budeli and Jan-Haram Swanepoel talk to Prin Shasiharan of Managing IP about the practical challenges associated with fighting counterfeiting on the continent. Counterfeit goods trade remains rife in Africa. The fundamental issues experienced include a lack of proper legislati...

Heath Hoglund, chief patent counsel at Dolby, wanted to be a judge when he was a student, but decided that audio-visual technology (and the intellectual property surrounding it) was the right field for him.  Hoglund, who now has 15 years under his belt at Dolby and manages a team of 50 people, tells Managing IP in an exclusive podcast about the ins and outs of handling standards and IP at his comp...

In Managing IP’s third corner office podcast, David Simon talks about his life managing Salesforce’s intellectual property – which can involve anything from protecting cartoon characters in movies to navigating the changing Section 101 rules surrounding business methods in the US.   Simon, who spent 15 years working for intel in various IP-related roles before becoming senior vice president for IP...

In an exclusive Managing IP podcast, AT&T intellectual property CEO Scott Frank talks about the importance of IP and the ins and outs of licensing and patent harvesting at one of the largest telecoms companies in the world. Frank says fostering collaboration has been one of his biggest challenges during the pandemic. He also discusses his work on the Georgia IP Alliance and the US IP Alliance,...

In Managing IP’s first corner office podcast, Bryan Zielinski talks about his company’s IP challenges and opportunities, AI, and more

In our MIP Awards series, Joanna Yang chats to Australian firm DCC about their work in pharma and universities on patents and their outlook during and after the pandemic    DCC recently won 2 of our MIP APAC Awards in 2020. Davies Collison Cave took patent prosecution firm of the year for Australia and boutique firm of the year for the whole region. With offices in Singapore and New Zealand as wel...

With:  Jonathan Waldrop, Partner, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP  Darcy Jones, Partner, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP   Marcus Barber, Partner, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP  Hosted by:  Patrick Wingrove, Americas Editor, Managing IP 

In the first podcast profiling winners of Managing IP’s 2021 awards, we speak to Pons IP about the impact of technology on IP legal services Lawyers must become increasingly tech-savvy as artificial intelligence and other technologies make their mark on the IP legal services industry, a Managing IP podcast heard.  Managing editor Ed Conlon sat down with counsel at Pons IP and blockchain specialist...

In the last 10 months, we have all become accustomed to working remotely and doing things differently. For lawyers, one of the impacts has been on major deals, particularly those with a cross-jurisdictional focus. In Managing IP’s latest podcast, panellists from Bristol Myers Squibb and Bird & Bird share their thoughts on whether efficiency has increased, if we have said goodbye to paper for g...

Managing IP joins Steve Mortinger of IBM and Toby Bond and Katharine Stephens of Bird & Bird to discuss how data rights are reshaping IP

In Managing IP’s first LATAM and Caribbean podcast, Americas editor Patrick Wingrove speaks to Virginia Cervieri, co-founder at Cervieri Monsuárez in Uruguay, André Oliveira, partner at Daniel Law in Brazil, and Mikhail Jackson, partner at Livingston Alexander & Levy in Jamaica about anti-counterfeiting.

Richard Vary, Clemens Heusch and Matthias Schneider reveal their views on component-level versus end-point licensing and Unwired Planet  In the first of three Bird & Bird-sponsored podcasts, Americas editor Patrick Wingrove spoke to Richard Vary at Bird & Bird, Clemens Heusch at Nokia and Matthias Schneider at Audi about standard essential patent licensing.  Here, Vary, Heusch and Schneide...

For the latest Managing IP podcast, Max Walters was joined by IP counsel at watch companies CLUSE and Daniel Wellington, as well as a former counsel at Italian fashion brand Bulgari.  Guests discussed the unique challenges watch-owners face in the fight against counterfeiters, how to observe and enforce their rights on social media and e-commerce sites, and whether legislation is long overdue. Gue...

Charlotte Kilpatrick, reporter at Managing IP, sat down with Corey Salsberg of Novartis, Ellen t’Hoen of Medicines Law and Policy, and David Rosenberg formerly of GSK, to discuss how COVID-19 is reshaping the IP landscape in the life sciences industries. The guests debated IP issues including access to medicine, open science, and the role patent and technology pooling can play to accelerate vaccin...