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Clause 8

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The podcast listened to by sophisticated corporate in-house counsel, judges from around the world, IP policymakers, and top patent dealmakers and attorneys to stay ahead of the curve by understanding the personalities and forces shaping IP.

Eli Mazour’s love of talking to people – along with his belief in the importance of America’s patent system – led him to start the Clause 8 podcast. Clause 8 features conversations that provide strategic insights about how to best deal with various patent-related issues. Some of the previous guests include America’s great innovators, federal judges, USPTO Directors, top IP staffers on Capitol Hill, and Carole Baskin’s attorney from the documentary Tiger King.

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Clause 8: IBM's Chief Patent Counsel for Americas Mark Vallone on Changing Patent Portfolio Strategy

March 28, 2024 10:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

For almost 30 years - under the leadership of giants like Marshall Phelps, David Kappos, and Manny Schechter, IBM led in obtaining the most patents per year. However, in 2020, IBM made the decision to no longer pursue the goal of “numeric patent leadership.” It went from obtaining over 8500 patents in 2021 to, by some counts, less than 5000. Nonetheless, IBM remains one of the top American patentees. Mark Vallone joins Eli to discuss how he stepped into one of the most significant roles i...

Chief Counsel John Lee on Bicameral, Bipartisan Efforts to Advance Section 101 & PTAB Legislation

March 14, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour - 107 MB

J. John Lee is the Chief Counsel for IP in the US House of Representatives and helms the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, which is chaired by Congressman Darrell Issa.  In that role, he is one of only four staffers in Congress who focus on IP issues and help set the agenda for what happens with America’s IP system. John joins Eli on this lively episode to discuss how he ended up in that role after serving as a Lead Judge on the PTAB, how he is currentl...

Clause 8: Chief Counsel John Lee on Bicameral, Bipartisan Efforts to Advance Section 101 & PTAB Legislation

March 14, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MB

J. John Lee is the Chief Counsel for IP in the US House of Representatives and helms the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, which is chaired by Congressman Darrell Issa.  In that role, he is one of only four staffers in Congress who focus on IP issues and help set the agenda for what happens with America’s IP system. John joins Eli on this lively episode to discuss how he ended up in that role after serving as a Lead Judge on the PTAB, how he is currently...

Europe's New Unified Patent Court: Exclusive Interview with Judge Michael Fleuchaus

February 29, 2024 10:30 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB

In this special two-part episode, we delve into the creation, implementation, and strategic importance of Europe's Unified Patent Court (UPC) with UPC Judge Michael Fleuchaus and Dr. Benjamin Grau.   The first part of the show highlights Judge Fleuchaus' experience as a newly appointed technical qualified judge at the UPC. Judge Fleuchaus discusses the motivations behind the UPC's establishment and overarching goal to streamline patent litigation across the European Union. He also discus...

Resetting the Narrative on IP Rights in America

December 19, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

This year, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce brought together a diverse group of stakeholders and thought leaders in support of a framework of IP Principles.  These IP Principles are part of an initiative to help America overcome a sustained effort to demonize intellectual property rights over the last 15-20 years.    Patrick Kilbride and Brad Watts, from the U.S. Chamber’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), join Eli to talk about leading this initiative, the current narrative on IP righ...

Matteo Sabattini on Licensing Igniting Virtuous Cycle of Innovation

December 12, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB

Matteo Sabattini is well known in DC patent policy circles from his previous role as Director of IP Policy at Ericsson.  He now joins Eli from Italy to discuss his new role as President and Chief Licensing Officer of Convida, what he learned from his time in DC, keys to building a successful licensing program, why recent attempts to regulate licensing of standard essential patents (SEPs) are misguided, and much more!   Selected Timestamps | 0:11:03 | How shifting value from devices to ...

Ed Murgitroyd on Disrupting IP Legal Services & Lessons from his Dad

December 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MB

Ed Murgitroyd joins Eli Mazour to tell the stories of building Murgitroyd into one of Europe’s biggest IP law firms and his disruptive new venture Hexos IP.  Murgitroyd was founded by Ed’s father Ian Murgitroyd in Scotland in 1975.  Ed eventually joined his father and became the CEO of Murgitroyd before it was acquired by a private equity firm, Sovereign, in 2019.      On this episode, Ed talks about: Story of his father, Ian Murgitroyd, starting Murgitroyd in Glasgow in 1975 thanks to a ...

Ofinno: The Little SEP Engine That Could

November 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

Ofinno’s founder Esmael Dinan and CEO Kavon Nasabzadeh join the Clause 8 podcast to tell Ofinno’s unique story of succeeding in the patent monetization space and talk about its plans for the future.    After spending years as an inventor at a large operating company, Esmael came to the conclusion that most such companies aren’t good at obtaining valuable standard essential patents (SEPs) on their own.  This spurred him to found Ofinno in 2011, an R&D lab that would obtain such patents.  He...

Kfir Luzzatto: Bring Amit Soussana Home

November 19, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB

Amit Soussana is an IP attorney at one of Israel’s leading IP firms, Luzzato and Luzzatto.  She is also one of more than 240 people – including babies, children, women, the elderly, and the disabled - who were brutally taken hostage by terrorists from Gaza on October 7th.  More than 40 days later, almost all of them are still being held hostage.   Kfir Luzzatto, the senior partner of Amit’s law firm, joins Clause 8 to talk about the story of that horrific day, Amit, the ongoing horror th...

Time to Embrace Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) & AI Future

November 12, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

Clause 8 is back for a new season!  To start the season, Eli – for the first time on Clause 8 - shares his own thoughts at length about the hottest debates in the patent world.   On this episode, Eli discusses: The horrific October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel and more than 240 Israelis still being held captured by the terrorists His “first IP interview” with then Israel Patent Office Director Asa Kling ChatGPT spurring changing attitudes towards potential of AI compared to when he...

Exclusive Interview with Judge Pauline Newman’s Attorney Greg Dolin

August 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 65 MB

When Judge Pauline Newman helped create the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982 to have exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases, no one could’ve guessed the drama that would follow almost 40 years after she joined the court herself. In April, Gene Quinn broke the news on IPWatchdog about a complaint filed by the Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit against Newman for being unable to effectively discharge the duties of her office.  Days later, Newman showed up and spoke at ...

SPECIAL EP: If Twitter Sues…with Gaston Kroub

July 24, 2023 08:45 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

Will Twitter's meager patent portfolio doom Elon Musk’s hopes of “strictly enforcing” Twitter’s IP rights?  Eli is joined by return guest Gaston Kroub on this special episode to discuss how an unprecedented IP dispute between two of the world’s richest men might play out.   In response to Meta successfully launching Threads, Musk’s go to lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg expressing "serious concerns that Meta...has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriat...

Ex-USPTO GC Nick Matich on Rulemaking & the PTAB

July 14, 2023 08:45 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

USPTO Director Kathi Vidal’s decision to issue the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) is the latest major controversy surrounding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).  The American Invents Act (AIA) created the PTAB to supposedly provide a cheaper, faster alternative to district court patent litigation.  However, the PTAB quickly gained a reputation for being a patent “death squad” that allows defendants to repeatedly challenge the same patents until those patents are invalid...

Shawn Lillemo on Building Software Tools for a Patent Firm

June 16, 2023 08:45 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB

Eli is joined by colleague Shawn Lillemo, Head of Software Development at their firm Harrity, to talk about the firm’s tech journey.  Shawn and Eli talk about why and how the firm started its own software development team to create tools to improve how it handles its patent preparation and prosecution work, Shawn’s superstar team in Ukraine, the future role of AI, and much more: The slow embrace of technology by patent firms United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)’s adoption of t...

New Episodes Coming Soon

June 09, 2023 08:05 - 2 minutes - 1.37 MB

Thank you for listening to the Clause 8 podcast. We hope you’ve enjoyed the episodes so far this season. We’re on a short break but we’ll be back next week with more episodes. Please consider subscribing and taking a few moments to share this podcast with others and giving us a rating in your favorite podcast app. It helps this podcast reach new audiences.  Eli is always welcome to hear any thoughts or ideas for the podcast. You can find him @EliMazour on Twitter. Or visit voiceofip....

Joff Wild on Founding IAM for Chief IP Officers & EU Commission’s anti-SEP Crusade

May 19, 2023 10:46 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

Joff Wild on Founding IAM for Chief IP Officers & EU Commission’s anti-SEP Crusade “It became obvious to me that IP was a lot more than laws and court decisions and regulations.  IP was becoming a fundamental business asset, one that people could use to generate profits, build partnerships, go out into the markets, and raise cash.  But no one was writing about that there was no coverage of that. So that said to me, there was an opportunity to create something new.” IAM’s founding editor ...

Tom Irving on Litigating 1st Hatch-Waxman Case & Mentoring 1000s in Patent Field

May 05, 2023 08:45 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

Eli is joined by the legend of the patent bar, the virtuoso of Federal Circuit decisions – Tom Irving. They discuss the rise of the pharmaceutical patent practice, the creation and current state of the Federal Circuit, why and how Tom mentored 1000s of patent attorneys, best practices for patent prosecution, and much more! Chief Judge Moore’s efforts to oust Judge Newman How Tom ended up practicing patent law Why there are so many patent attorneys from and in Utah Joining Finnegan, Hende...

Tim Pohlmann on Founding IPlytics & Hosting The SEP Couch

April 21, 2023 08:45 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB

Tim Pohlmann is the founder and CEO of IPlytics, which provides software analytics tools for standard essential patents (SEPs).  Tim is also one of the world’s leading economists that focuses on the subject of SEPs, and was recently commissioned by the EU Commission to provide empirical studies for their work regarding SEPs. Tim’s podcast, The SEP Couch, features discussions with a very diverse group of industry leaders, prominent attorneys, academics, and policy makers on the subject of S...

HTIA’s David Jones on Winning in DC

April 07, 2023 08:45 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

David Jones is the Executive Director of the High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA), which advocates on patent policy issues on behalf of some of the largest tech companies in the world.  When Dave became the head of HTIA in 2019, it seemed that DC was finally turning against the “patent troll” narrative driving patent policy in Congress and the executive branch.  However, that did not last long: efforts to pass Section 101 reform failed to gain traction in Congress; the current administratio...

Commissioner Stoll on Being Part of ‘First Family’ of Patent Law

March 24, 2023 08:45 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB

Former Patent Commissioner Robert Stoll joins the Clause 8 podcast to talk about working his way up from being an examiner to being the commissioner over his 30+ year-long career at the USPTO.  As commissioner, Bob helped former USTPO Director David Kappos implement the American Invents Act (AIA) and transform how the USPTO’s patent examiners operate.  Before that, he served as USPTO’s head of the Office of Legislation and International Affairs under Director John Dudas.  Now out of governme...

World’s #1 IP Dealmaker You Haven't Heard of...Yet

March 10, 2023 09:45 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MB

If you’ve come across a national news story about some brash character making lots of money from patent deals, chances are that the person making those deals happen behind the scenes was an unassuming lawyer in Israel.  Her name is Lillian Shaked.  On this episode, Lillian tells the story of how she went from being a commercial attorney in Israel to working with who’s who of patent monetization legends around the world and likely working on more major patent deals than any other attorney i...

USPTO Director Kathi Vidal Defends America's Patent System

February 24, 2023 09:45 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

Kathi Vidal returns to the Clause 8 podcast to talk about her first year as the Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).  In an expansive conversation, Director Vidal talks about what she hopes to accomplish, explains and defends the current process for exploring and making changes to the patent system, and responds to criticisms regarding the state of the system.  Even close observers of her time as Director are bound to be surprised by many comments she offers on this episod...

How the PTAB Killed Molly Metz’s Patents

February 10, 2023 09:45 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

Five-time world jump rope champion Molly Metz and her husband Dirk Tomsin talk about the highs and lows of innovation, entrepreneurship, and relying on America’s patent system.  A serious car accident spurred Molly to invent a new type of jump rope that revolutionized jump roping and the use of jump roping for CrossFit.  Thanks to patents that were awarded to her by the US Patent Office (USPTO) for the invention, Molly’s company – JumpNrope – started making the jump ropes completely in Ameri...

Bruce Berman on Telling a Patent Story

January 27, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MB

Bruce Berman is the PR guru of the IP world.  As CEO of Brody Berman Associates, he has implemented marketing and business development programs on behalf of more than 200 IP portfolios and businesses.  And, in 2016, he founded the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, an independent non-profit that raises awareness of the use and impact of intellectual property on individuals and businesses.  He is also the host of the Understanding IP Matters podcast.  In this episode of the Clau...

Bob Giles – Exclusive Interview with Qualcomm's New Chief IP Counsel

May 10, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB

Qualcomm is responsible for the smartphone revolution.  It started working on the technology back when many thought it was impossible.  Besides everyday users, one of the biggest beneficiaries of Qualcomm’ technology was Apple.  Apple relied on the technology to make iPhones that grew its market cap to a record of $3 Trillion. However, eventually, Apple decided it was paying Qualcomm too much for the technology. And, instead of agreeing to one fair arbitration process to settle the dispu...

Ray Millien - Volvo's past Chief IP Officer & CEO of Harness IP

April 26, 2022 09:30 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB

What is outside counsel’s real job?  How do you make patents part of a 100-year-old company’s DNA?  Why did Ocean Tomo fail to become the Goldman Sachs of patents? How do you get opposing counsel to offer you a dream job? The Renaissance Man of IP – Raymond Millien – shares these secrets on the latest episode of Clause 8.  Ray previously served as Chief IP Office at Volvo and is now the CEO of the IP boutique, Harness IP.  Prior to that, Ray served as the general counsel of a groundbreaking ...

Prof. Tim Hsieh on Value of District Court Judges Having Patent Expertise

April 12, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB

Show Notes Is it preferable for patent cases to be handled by district court judges who have relevant expertise and experience? Senator Leahy can’t make up his mind.  Leahy’s eponymous Leahy-Smith American Invents Act created the Patent Pilot Program.  The program allowed federal district court judges in select districts to volunteer to handle patent cases. The goal was for certain judges to have increased expertise – and as a result – do a better job. However, after the program expired ...

Phil Warrick on Working with Sen. Coons to Improve Patent System

March 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

How is patent policy made in Congress?  Few know better than Philip Warrick.  Phil served as Senator Coons’ top IP advisor after Coons helped restart the Senate’s IP Subcommittee. In that role, Phil helped lead the subcommittees’ efforts to improve America’s patent system, including legislation to fix the patent eligibility mess.  Those efforts were a dramatic departure from Congress’s previous fixation on the “patent troll” narrative.  After Coons friend and fellow Delawarean, Joe Biden, ...

Louis Carbonneau on Brokering Patents After the Patent Gold Rush

March 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

The golden age for patent brokers has come and gone but that doesn’t stop Louis Carbonneau.  “There are very, very few patent brokers nowadays. We’re just one of a handful left. And frankly, we get about four or five portfolios every single day that people want us to broker. We only say yes 1% or 2% of the time.” As one of the world’s leading patent brokers, the CEO and Founder of Tangible IP has brokered over 4,500 patents and boasts close to 30 years in the industry.  With experience a...

Ryan Abbott on Why Patent Law Should Recognize AI Inventors

March 01, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB

Good lawyers effectively deal with the present. Very few have what it takes to create the future. Professor Ryan Abbott is doing just that. He leads the DABUS project: the first time ever an AI machine has been named as an inventor on a patent application. Most thought that the project was an interesting academic exercise that was unlikely to go anywhere. Some - uncharitably - dismissed it as "a publicity stunt." Yet, the DABUS project did get a patent in South Africa. And, an Australian...

Prof. Dan Brown and Dan Jr.’s Patent Battle Against a Retail Giant

February 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB

Prof. Dan Brown and his son, Dan Brown Jr., are straight out of central casting. Prof. Brown, the father, grew up in a working-class Irish family on Chicago’s South Side before eventually becoming a professor of engineering at Northwestern University. Dan Jr. is a moppy-haired marketing genius who is now President of LoggerHead Tools. As a result of a father-son argument, Prof. Brown invented an award-winning tool called the Bionic Wrench and pursued the audacious idea of manufacturing it in ...

Josh Landau - On Lobbying for Weaker Patent Rights and “Making a PB&J Sandwich”

July 06, 2021 06:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

The first episode of this season of Clause 8 featured the most recent USPTO Director - Andrei Iancu - discussing his efforts to strengthen America’s patent system over the last three years.  One of the most publicly vocal opponents of those efforts was Josh Landau, patent counsel at the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA).  Now that those views are in ascendancy in the Biden administration and Congress, it made sense to finish this season by talking to Josh.    It was J...

Mark Han: Applying Lessons from Intellectual Ventures to Helping Innovative Doctors

June 29, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB

“Jeff [Roh] knew for every person like [him], who is able to succeed, there's countless others who aren't. They just fall flat because they encounter resistance and give up. And so he was on a mission to make other inventors and surgeons be successful as well." Don’t miss this latest episode of Clause 8 with President and Chief Legal Officer of IntuitiveX, Mark Han, about the new business model they have created to help innovators in the medical field.  Mark cut his teeth working for the...

Chris Agrawal: AIPF’s President on Growing $1 Billion Portfolio & Succeeding in IP Field

June 22, 2021 06:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

Chris Agrawal is President of the Association of Intellectual Property Firms and partner at Bookoff McAndrews.  He was instrumental in one of the biggest patent transactions in history and the reason Eli got into patent law in the first place.  If you’re a startup founder or an executive at a growth stage company worrying about patent protection or wondering how to scale your patent program, download and listen to this episode today. On how AIPF helped IP firms navigate the pandemic: “I ...

Welcome to Clause 8

June 08, 2021 06:00 - 2 minutes - 2.71 MB

We hope you've enjoyed the episodes we've released so far in this season. We'll be taking a short break and will release the rest of the season very soon. For more information, visit voiceofip.com.  And, if you would like to learn more about my firm, visit harrityllp.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.voiceofip.com

Alan Albright - On Becoming the Go-To Judge for Patent Cases

June 01, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 59 MB

If you’ve ever wondered how and why Judge Alan D Albright - of the Western District Texas -  became America’s go-to judge for patent cases, you don’t want to miss this episode.  Before Judge Albright was confirmed in 2018, less than 10 patent cases had been filed in Waco district in its entire history. In 2020 alone, he took on almost 800 new patent cases, accounting for 20% of all new patent cases filed in the US last year.  “Having practised all those years, I get that 99% of the time,...

Prof. Stephen Yelderman - A Personal View of How the Supreme Court Approaches IP

May 25, 2021 06:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

How many Supreme Court Justices can you count as friends? Professor Stephen Yelderman, one of America’s leading IP scholars, was recruited to join the Notre Dame Law School faculty by future Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch before and after he joined the Supreme Court.  Prof. Yelderman’s experience of having a personal connection to not one, but two Supreme Court justices, as well as having clerked at the Supreme Court, have provided him with a ...

Prof. Stephen Yelderman - A Personal View of How the Supreme Court Approaches IP

May 25, 2021 06:00 - 56 minutes - 128 MB

How many Supreme Court Justices can you count as friends? Professor Stephen Yelderman, one of America’s leading IP scholars, was recruited to join the Notre Dame Law School faculty by future Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch before and after he joined the Supreme Court.  Prof. Yelderman’s experience of having a personal connection to not one, but two Supreme Court justices, as well as having clerked at the Supreme Court, have provided him with a ...

Andrei Iancu - From Communist Romania To USPTO Director

May 18, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB

At the end of last year, IPWatchdog asked leaders in the field about their wildest dreams for America’s IP system. The most common answer was for former director of the USPTO Andrei Iancu to continue on as director.  Former Deputy USPTO Director Russ Slifer noted that Andrei will be a hard act to follow.  Andrei immigrated from communist Romania when he was 13 years old, and still, to this day, believes the US is the best place to be for freedom and opportunity.  “I'm a huge fan of innov...

Joseph Lentivech - Ex-PTAB Judge on Ex-Parte Appeals

November 24, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 90.6 MB

Judge Joe Lentivech is a former Administrative Patent Judge. On this episode, he talks about how he became an Administrative Patent Judge, how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) operates, how to win ex parte appeals, overcoming Section 101 rejections, oral hearings at the PTAB, and much more! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.voiceofip.com

23. Joseph Lentivech - Ex-PTAB Judge on Ex-Parte Appeals

November 24, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 90.3 MB

Judge Joe Lentivech is a former Administrative Patent Judge. On this episode, he talks about how he became an Administrative Patent Judge, how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) operates, how to win ex parte appeals, overcoming Section 101 rejections, oral hearings at the PTAB, and much more!

Brad Watts - Section 101 Reform Efforts in the 116th Congress

September 21, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 125 MB

Brad Watts is the Majority Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Under the leadership of Sen. Thom Tillis, Brad led the herculean effort to fix the Section 101, patent eligibility mess. In this episode, Eli and Brad talk what really happened during this last attempt at reform, why it wasn’t successful, where to go from here, and much more.

Brad Watts - Leading Sen. Thom Tillis’ Efforts to Fix the Section 101 Patent Eligibility Mess

September 21, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

Brad Watts is the Majority Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Under the leadership of Sen. Thom Tillis, Brad led the herculean effort to fix the Section 101, patent eligibility mess. In this episode, Eli and Brad talk what really happened during this last attempt at reform, why it wasn’t successful, where to go from here, and much more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

22. Brad Watts - Section 101 Reform Efforts in the 116th Congress

September 21, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 125 MB

Brad Watts is the Majority Chief Counsel and Staff Director for the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Under the leadership of Sen. Thom Tillis, Brad led the herculean effort to fix the Section 101, patent eligibility mess. In this episode, Eli and Brad talk what really happened during this last attempt at reform, why it wasn’t successful, where to go from here, and much more.

21. Professor Adam Mossoff

September 01, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

Welcome to Clause 8 – the Voice of IP. Clause 8 is part of IPWatchdog and hosted by Eli Mazour. If you enjoy listening, please subscribe on your favorite podcasting app, share it with others, and leave a five-star rating. This episode features an interview with Professor Adam Mossoff from George Mason University’s Scalia Law School. He is the leading academic expert when it comes to intellectual property policy issues. Most significantly, he is largely responsible for providing the intell...

Professor Adam Mossoff

September 01, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

Welcome to Clause 8 – the Voice of IP. Clause 8 is part of IPWatchdog and hosted by Eli Mazour. If you enjoy listening, please subscribe on your favorite podcasting app, share it with others, and leave a five-star rating. This episode features an interview with Professor Adam Mossoff from George Mason University’s Scalia Law School. He is the leading academic expert when it comes to intellectual property policy issues. Most significantly, he is largely responsible for providing the intell...

Professor Adam Mossoff - How Law School Professors Influence the Patent Policy Debate

September 01, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB

Welcome to Clause 8 – the Voice of IP. Clause 8 is part of IPWatchdog and hosted by Eli Mazour. If you enjoy listening, please subscribe on your favorite podcasting app, share it with others, and leave a five-star rating. This episode features an interview with Professor Adam Mossoff from George Mason University’s Scalia Law School. He is the leading academic expert when it comes to intellectual property policy issues. Most significantly, he is largely responsible for providing the intell...

20. Bruce MacEwen - Adam Smith, Esq.

August 04, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MB

This episode features an interview with Bruce MacEwen. He is the founder and president of Adam Smith, Esq. and has written thousands of articles on the economics of law firms. He is recognized as the world’s leading expert in this subject and provides advice to a select number of law firms about how to succeed in the changing legal landscape. During this episode, Bruce and Eli discuss: • Why Bruce thought there was something off about law firms by Thanksgiving of his first year as an ass...

Bruce MacEwen - World’s Leading Expert on the Economics of Law Firms

August 04, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MB

This episode features an interview with Bruce MacEwen. He is the founder and president of Adam Smith, Esq. and has written thousands of articles on the economics of law firms. He is recognized as the world’s leading expert in this subject and provides advice to a select number of law firms about how to succeed in the changing legal landscape. During this episode, Bruce and Eli discuss: • Why Bruce thought there was something off about law firms by Thanksgiving of his first year as an ass...

Bruce MacEwen - Adam Smith, Esq.

August 04, 2020 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MB

This episode features an interview with Bruce MacEwen. He is the founder and president of Adam Smith, Esq. and has written thousands of articles on the economics of law firms. He is recognized as the world’s leading expert in this subject and provides advice to a select number of law firms about how to succeed in the changing legal landscape. During this episode, Bruce and Eli discuss: • Why Bruce thought there was something off about law firms by Thanksgiving of his first year as an ass...