Posts Tagged: "IPWatchdog LIVE"

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I spoke with Lisa Jorgenson, who is Deputy Director at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Jorgenson had just attended IPWatchdog LIVE 2026 and spoke on our final panel along with former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director David Kappos, former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, and former International Trade Commission (ITC) Commissioner Scott Kieff. She joined me immediately following the conference at IPWatchdog Studios for a wide-ranging discussion that pulled back the curtain on an institution many in the IP community think they understand—but often do not really appreciate.

A panel on day one of IPWatchdog LIVE 2026 didn’t mince words: the voluntary patent licensing ecosystem is functionally broken, and the IP community needs to understand why. That was the diagnostic consensus from the panel titled Patent Dealmaking, Monetization & Licensing: An Examination of Capital, Risk, and Deal Flow, moderated by Brian O’Shaughnessy (Dinsmore & Shohl) and featuring Michael Gulliford (Soryn IP Capital), Louis Carbonneau (Tangible IP), and Dan Kesack (WTW Insurance).

Although I am not an attorney, I have been deeply enmeshed in the patent process as an inventor for three decades. And I have grown an appreciation for your profession that is perhaps deeper than most folks’. The majority of my work over the past 30 years has been in AI and machine learning. And I want to share some thoughts with you today about how all of this intersects and how you, everyone in this room, are really the last line of defense that humanity has in maintaining what it means to be human. 

Our EIGHTH annual IPWatchdog LIVE conference will be held on April 2-4, of 2028 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View hotel in Arlington, VA. This program brings together the intellectual property community from the US and Abroad – from former and current federal and district court judges, current and former high-ranking USPTO and other government leadership, in-house counsel from corporations…

Our SEVENTH annual IPWatchdog LIVE conference will be held on April 4-6, of 2027 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View hotel in Arlington, VA. This program brings together the intellectual property community from the US and Abroad – from former and current federal and district court judges, current and former high-ranking USPTO and other government leadership, in-house counsel from corporations…

A number of sessions on the second day of IPWatchdog LIVE examined the state of U.S. IP policy and the potential for change under the Trump Administration, including one in which retired U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Judge Randall Rader said the biggest failure with respect to innovation policy has been an institutional one—with the greatest blame placed at the feet of his former court.

This week we explore small and medium sized enterprises, often referred to simply as SMEs. And in particular, we take a look at how two different countries are working with their own small businesses to assist them with respect to innovation and intellectual property. To accomplish this, I turned to two friends – Mike McLean and Joe Doyle, who work to assist SMEs in Canada and Ireland respectively. Both Mike and Joe were in the United States at the end of September to speak at IPWatchdog LIVE 2024, on a panel titled Empowering SME Growth by Leveraging IP. During our conversation we learn about the ways both the Canadian and Irish governments are supporting SMEs, which is something that we in the United States should be doing to a much greater and coordinated degree.

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we have a special episode. At the end of September we held our annual all-topics conference, which we call IPWatchdog LIVE. This conference brings together some of the top thought leaders and newsmakers from the entire industry, with a variety of different backgrounds and people who focus on various different niche verticals within the IP community. So, while the conference was ongoing, Eileen McDermott, our editor in chief, asked some of the industry leaders in attendance what they thought was the most important issue facing the intellectual property industry.

On the final day of IPWatchdog LIVE 2024, Phil Johnson became the second recipient of the annual Pauline Newman Award, which is presented each year to recognize the unique achievements of one patent attorney over their career. The presentation was followed by a discussion with Johnson, Judge Paul Michel, IPWatchdog Founder and CEO Gene Quinn and Judge Newman, who recapped for attendees her ongoing battle to fight her suspension from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).

ipwat Our 3rd annual IPWatchdog LIVE Conference was held on September 17-19, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency Dulles in Herndon VA.  This program brought together the intellectual property community – from politicos, to business executives, to attorneys, and inventors. With a focus on exceptional networking opportunities, and A+ content. Our philosophy has always been that “Content is King”, and that…

On day two of IPWatchdog LIVE, J. John Lee, Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property for the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, told those who are skeptical of the chances for Senators’ Tillis and Coons’ Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) to move forward that a House version of the bill is likely to be introduced in the near future. Lee, who is principal advisor on IP issues and helms the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, was speaking on a panel titled “Politics, Policy and Legislation at the Intersection of Intellectual Property,” which also featured David Jones of the High-Tech Inventors Alliance; Joe Matal of Haynes Boone, LLP and former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Acting Director and Acting Solicitor; and Eli Mazour of Harrity & Harrity.

The third annual IPWatchdog LIVE conference opened with panels examining global trends in IP policy and a review of U.S. Supreme Court case law, as well as the presentation of the third annual Paul Michel Award, which each year honors a respected industry leader and advocate for fairness in the IP community. On a panel that detailed some of the most recent U.S. Supreme Court’s IP decisions, retired U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Judge Paul Michel described the arguably contradictory holdings in Google v. Oracle and Warhol v. Goldsmith as “useless” in terms of substantive guidance from the Court. “These two cases represent a failure on the part of the Supreme Court to provide meaningful guidance to users who need it now,” Michel said. Professor Llew Gibbons of the University of Toledo College of Law explained the holdings in each of the cases and concluded that “I couldn’t find a principled reason other than ‘we want to come out differently’” for the Court’s ruling in Warhol, considering the Google decision.

Our 6th annual IPWatchdog LIVE conference will be held on March 22-24, of 2026 at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View hotel in Arlington, VA. This program brings together the intellectual property community from the US and Abroad – from former and current federal and district court judges, current and former high-ranking USPTO and other government leadership, in-house counsel from corporations…

Join us September 29 – October 1, 2024, at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View, in Arlington, Virginia, for our fourth annual IPWatchdog LIVE conference. Bringing together the intellectual property community – from politicos, to business executives, to attorneys, and inventors, IPWatchdog LIVE gives everybody from all sides of the debate the opportunity to have a fulsome discussion of the most important…