Posts in Interviews & Conversations
IBM Calls for an End to the ‘Legal Fiction’ of Current 101 Law
This marks the final installment in my four-part interview with IBM’s Vice President and Assistant General Counsel Mark Ringes and Chief Patent Counsel Manny Schecter. I …
IBM: Patent Troll Problem is ‘Just Noise’ Post-America Invents Act
This marks Part III of my four-part interview with IBM discussing the state of innovation and the U.S. patent system from the standpoint of a company …
IBM: Software Patent Exceptions Make No Sense in a World Where “Software is Ubiquitous”
In Part I of my recent interview with IBM, I spoke with Mark Ringes, IBM Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, and Manny Schecter, Chief Patent Counsel, …
In Pursuit of the Hardest, Riskiest and Most Valuable Innovation
As IBM was preparing to announce yet another milestone achievement, this year receiving 9,100 U.S. patents in 2018, I had the opportunity to sit down for an on …
Exclusive: A Conversation on Self Driving Vehicles at the EPO with Roberta Romano-Götsch
During our previous interview Ms.Romano-Götsch mentioned that the EPO would be soon releasing a study on self driving vehicles. I expressed interest in speaking with …
Brave New World: Blockchain, Mobility and the Intersection Between AI and Automotive
Roberta Romano-Götsch: "Imagine for example that in future you can have a truck where the driver does the difficult task of getting the truck outside the …
Exclusive with Roberta Romano-Götsch, Chief Operating Officer of Mobility and Mechatronics at EPO
I recently had the opportunity to go on the record with Roberta Romano-Götsch, the chief operating officer of Mobility and Mechatronics at the European Patent Office (…
USPTO begins process for finding new leadership at the PTAB
Just days prior to our interview an announcement was made that PTAB Chief Judge David Ruschke would be stepping down and assuming new responsibilities. "At the PTAB, …
Exclusive Interview: PTO Director Andrei Iancu and OED Director Will Covey on Practitioner Dues, CLE and Unauthorized Practice
The focus of this interview was OED generally, but more specifically why they Office felt it was necessary to begin charging annual dues to practitioners and what …
12 Questions with Karin Seegert, COO Healthcare, Biotechnology and Chemistry, EPO
Karin Seegert studied pharmacy and received her PhD from the University of Munich in 1985. Following several years working in R&D in industry, she joined the EPO …
IPBC 2018 to Focus on Creating and Harnessing IP Value
How do you create - how do you harness that value and how do you turn it into something that is meaningful for the people that own …
A Conversation with Joff Wild, Editor-in-Chief of IAM Magazine
As patents become more essential to more businesses, investors are going to want to have more information about them. They're going to want to have more visibility …
The Most Interesting Man in the Patent World Fights to Improve America’s Patent System
“I can tell you that my work in China and Japan and Korea tells me that the companies there are quite delighted to pick up the slack …
EPO ready for the first Unitary Patent as soon as the ratification requirements are met
One of the great aspects of the Unitary Patent is that it follows the normal EPO procedure up to grant. And indeed, the search and the examination …
Escaping the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Toward a New Transparency in Patent Licensing
"The key ingredient needed for the prisoner’s dilemma to work its destructive magic is a lack of transparency between the parties involved," Siino writes. The article …
