Awards Ceremony

Awards Ceremony

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We once again presented two awards at IPWatchdog LIVE; the Paul Michel Award and the Pauline Newman Award. You can listen to the remarks made during the Award Ceremony by downloading the podcast above.

Paul Michel Award

Bob Taylor

IPWatchdog is pleased to announce that Robert Taylor has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Paul Michel Award. It is hard to imagine someone more deserving of the Paul Michel Award than Bob Taylor, who throughout his legal career has time and time again advocated on behalf of innovators, particularly those entrepreneurial innovators who take great risk and found high-tech startup companies, which are the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. Bob currently serves as General Counsel for the Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Bayh-Dole Coalition.

Pauline Newman Award

Steven Caltrider

IPWatchdog is pleased to announce that Steven Caltrider has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Pauline Newman Award. Steve has been a leader in the intellectual property community for nearly 40 years and is widely recognized by his peers as one of the preeminent in-house IP leaders in the world. After more than 35 years with Eli Lilly and Company and rising to the position of Vice President and General Patent Counsel, Steve was not done. In 2022, Steve moved to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where he currently serves as Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer.

The Pauline Newman Award, created with the blessing of Judge Newman, is given each year to recognize the unique achievements of one patent attorney over their career. The award recognizes excellence, influence, integrity, vision, and wisdom – all characteristics commonly associated with the award namesake, Judge Newman.