Posts Tagged: interview
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 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 (…
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 …
Director Iancu worries current state of Section 101 ‘weakens the robustness of our IP system’
Director Iancu: "But for our purposes what I know for a fact is that in order to incentivize American innovation whether it’s artificial intelligence, DNA processing, …
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 …
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 …
Exclusive with Grant Philpott: Patenting Computer Implemented Inventions in Europe
We try to be precise and stick to CII because “software” in itself is a term which lacks precision. It can refer to a high level program, …
Thomas Massie: America’s Inventor Congressman
“I can tell you, every day Congress is in session there are lobbyists here trying to weaken the patent system,” Massie explained. In Massie’s words, those …
Fixing America’s Patent System is the Best Strategy to Jump-Start our Stalled Economy
Fixing America’s patent system is necessary for meaningful economic growth for America’s workers and America’s global competiveness over countries like China. Not surprisingly, Judge …
Does innovation lead to patents, or patents lead to innovation?
We pick up our conversation with me suggesting that there is a problem with claims being found to be abstract when the decision maker has been able …
Up close and personal with Russ Slifer
In this final segment we begin talking about something Slifer wanted specifically to address — Tony Scardino being named Acting Deputy Director. We then proceed to some of …
An Exclusive Interview with former USPTO Deputy Director Russ Slifer
As you will see from the transcript, nothing was out of bounds, although because of time we didn't get into everything. Slifer did agree to come back …
An Examiner’s Tips For Speedier Patent Prosecution
Interactions between patent examiners and patent practitioners are often tense. At worst, these interactions can be an exercise in restraint with both parties thinly veiling their disdain …
