AOL 073: Jamie Samuels on Eliminating Stupid Patents

This week's guest has a very interesting story to tell. She's been in IP law for some time and her work in the tech arena has taken her career on a very interesting course.

Julie is a patent lawyer and executive director of Engine, a nonprofit focused on technology entrepreneurship and giving startups a seat at the table in policy debates. Before that she was a senior staff attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

One of the interesting aspects to her story is her decision to leave a high paying job at a big law firm doing IP law to pursue her passion to make sure tech companies big and small are protected from bad business practices and bad government legislation.

There is a ton of great information packed into this interview so go listen to it right now!
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Engine

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Book Recommendation - Great House: A Novel

Contact - [email protected]

This week’s guest has a very interesting story to tell. She’s been in IP law for some time and her work in the tech arena has taken her career on a very interesting course.

Julie is a patent lawyer and executive director of Engine, a nonprofit focused on technology entrepreneurship and giving startups a seat at the table in policy debates. Before that she was a senior staff attorney and the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

One of the interesting aspects to her story is her decision to leave a high paying job at a big law firm doing IP law to pursue her passion to make sure tech companies big and small are protected from bad business practices and bad government legislation.

There is a ton of great information packed into this interview so go listen to it right now!

Engine

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Book Recommendation – Great House: A Novel

Contact – [email protected]