Latest Patenteligibility Podcast Episodes
Clause 8: IBM's Chief Patent Counsel for Americas Mark Vallone on Changing Patent Portfolio Strategy
Clause 8 - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsFor 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 pat...
Chief Counsel John Lee on Bicameral, Bipartisan Efforts to Advance Section 101 & PTAB Legislation
Clause 8 - March 14, 2024 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsJ. 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...
Clause 8: Chief Counsel John Lee on Bicameral, Bipartisan Efforts to Advance Section 101 & PTAB Legislation
Clause 8 - March 14, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsJ. 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...
Europe's New Unified Patent Court: Exclusive Interview with Judge Michael Fleuchaus
Clause 8 - February 29, 2024 10:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsIn 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 techn...
Resetting the Narrative on IP Rights in America
Clause 8 - December 19, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsThis 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 la...
Matteo Sabattini on Licensing Igniting Virtuous Cycle of Innovation
Clause 8 - December 12, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsMatteo 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 lic...
Ed Murgitroyd on Disrupting IP Legal Services & Lessons from his Dad
Clause 8 - December 05, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsEd 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 Murgitroy...
Ofinno: The Little SEP Engine That Could
Clause 8 - November 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsOfinno’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 conclus...
Kfir Luzzatto: Bring Amit Soussana Home
Clause 8 - November 19, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsAmit 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 late...
Time to Embrace Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) & AI Future
Clause 8 - November 12, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsClause 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 st...
Exclusive Interview with Judge Pauline Newman’s Attorney Greg Dolin
Clause 8 - August 01, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsWhen 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 IPW...
SPECIAL EP: If Twitter Sues…with Gaston Kroub
Clause 8 - July 24, 2023 08:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsWill 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...
Ex-USPTO GC Nick Matich on Rulemaking & the PTAB
Clause 8 - July 14, 2023 08:45 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsUSPTO 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 ...
Shawn Lillemo on Building Software Tools for a Patent Firm
Clause 8 - June 16, 2023 08:45 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsEli 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 prose...
New Episodes Coming Soon
Clause 8 - June 09, 2023 08:05 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsThank 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 you...
Joff Wild on Founding IAM for Chief IP Officers & EU Commission’s anti-SEP Crusade
Clause 8 - May 19, 2023 10:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsJoff 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...
Tom Irving on Litigating 1st Hatch-Waxman Case & Mentoring 1000s in Patent Field
Clause 8 - May 05, 2023 08:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsEli 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...
Tim Pohlmann on Founding IPlytics & Hosting The SEP Couch
Clause 8 - April 21, 2023 08:45 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsTim 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 ...
HTIA’s David Jones on Winning in DC
Clause 8 - April 07, 2023 08:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsDavid 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” n...
Commissioner Stoll on Being Part of ‘First Family’ of Patent Law
Clause 8 - March 24, 2023 08:45 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsFormer 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...
World’s #1 IP Dealmaker You Haven't Heard of...Yet
Clause 8 - March 10, 2023 09:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsIf 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 h...
USPTO Director Kathi Vidal Defends America's Patent System
Clause 8 - February 24, 2023 09:45 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsKathi 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 change...
How the PTAB Killed Molly Metz’s Patents
Clause 8 - February 10, 2023 09:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsFive-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 ...
Bruce Berman on Telling a Patent Story
Clause 8 - January 27, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsBruce 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 no...
Bob Giles – Exclusive Interview with Qualcomm's New Chief IP Counsel
Clause 8 - May 10, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsQualcomm 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 mark...
Ray Millien - Volvo's past Chief IP Officer & CEO of Harness IP
Clause 8 - April 26, 2022 09:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsWhat 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 ...
Prof. Tim Hsieh on Value of District Court Judges Having Patent Expertise
Clause 8 - April 12, 2022 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsShow 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 cour...
Phil Warrick on Working with Sen. Coons to Improve Patent System
Clause 8 - March 29, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsHow 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 ...
Louis Carbonneau on Brokering Patents After the Patent Gold Rush
Clause 8 - March 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsThe 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% o...
Ryan Abbott on Why Patent Law Should Recognize AI Inventors
Clause 8 - March 01, 2022 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsGood 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 ...
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