IPWatchdog Unleashed

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, IPWatchdog President Renee C. Quinn, speaks with Coke Morgan Stewart about her time leading the USPTO and her new role as president and CEO of the Council for Innovation Promotion. Stewart describes the operational pressures she encountered at the agency, from the patent application backlog and hiring freeze to the challenge of leading a largely remote workforce through rapid change. The conversation turns to the uncertainty facing patent ow...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Steve Caltrider. Caltrider, Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and former General Patent Counsel at Eli Lilly, brings perspectives from nonprofit research and pharmaceutical practice to a central question: how does IP help move discoveries from the laboratory to patients? The conversation examines the role of patent protection ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Hilary Preston. A partner at Vinson & Elkins and co-head of the firm’s intellectual property and technology litigation practice, Preston discusses the rapidly expanding AI data center ecosystem and the complex technology, infrastructure, and legal risks emerging alongside it. The conversation examines how power availability, grid capacity, cooling systems, on-site generation...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Bijou Mgbojikwe, who is Senior Policy Counsel at the Entertainment Software Association. They discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping the video game industry and creating new challenges at the intersection of copyright, the First Amendment, right of publicity, content moderation, and consumer protection. The conversation examines why policymakers must distinguish betwee...

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Robert Plotkin. A patent attorney, computer scientist, and longtime software and AI practitioner, Plotkin discusses the relationship between hardware and software innovation and why legal distinctions that ignore how technology actually operates can produce flawed patent analysis. Quinn and Plotkin examine the continuing challenges surrounding patent eligibility, including the t...