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AccelPro’s expert interviews and coaching accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your everyday job performance and make your career goals achievable. How? By connecting with a group of experienced IP Law professionals. You’ll get the knowledge and advice you need to navigate your changing field. You’ll hear deep dives with experts on the most important IP Law topics. You’ll give and receive advice on how to make difficult job decisions. Join now to accelerate your career: https://joinaccelpro.com/ip-law/ iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

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August 21, 202426 min

On Navigating Technology During the Application Process

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Craig Fisher, Talent Consultant & Author. In a world where technology has made it easier than ever to overapply, Fisher explains what companies are doing to find qualified candidates, and what job seekers should be aware of before they submit their applications. Specificity, Fisher says, is the best way to get your resume in front of human eyes and find the position that works for you. “Focus is one of the most important things. Don't try to be everything to everyone. Don't try to be a Jack or Jill of all trades. Don't apply to anything and everything. Focus very specifically on the thing that you would most likely get hired to do and get paid well to do.”---AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the employment law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

August 14, 202422 min

On the Evolution of Trade Secrets

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Mary Mazzello of Kirkland & Ellis.Mazzello is a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis’ New York office, where she specializes in intellectual property litigation. Her practice focuses on trademark, copyright, trade secret, and music royalty matters. Mary has litigated cases across a wide range of venues, including trademark disputes before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, music copyright matters before the Copyright Royalty Board, IP disputes in state and federal courts, and appellate issues before the United States Supreme Court.We talk about establishing trade secret claims, intellectual property protection strategies, the evolution of trade secret protection, risks posed by remote work and employees working in public areas like coffee shops, and more.“My client worked for Company A and moved to Company B. Company A said that they think he stole trade secrets and filed for a preliminary injunction to prevent the guy from working at the new company for a year and to claw back any confidential information that they claimed he took,” Mazello says.“We all showed up to court for the preliminary injunction hearing and the plaintiff had forgotten to file the paperwork to seal the courtroom. This meant that the courtroom was open to the public. All of their plans for doing cross examination related to the trade secrets went completely out the window.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

August 7, 202420 min

On PTAB Best Practices

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Dr. Kristi Sawert of Fish and Richardson.Sawert has 15 years of experience at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, including eight as an administrative patent judge, and is a Principal at Fish & Richardson in Washington. We talk about Sawert’s experience as an administrative patent judge (APJ), the Patent Trial Appeal Board (PTAB), working with APJs, and more.“I used to give talks about board practice,” Sawert says.“I would always say, “If you want to win at the PTAB, help me help you.” As an APJ, it didn't really matter to me whether the petitioner won or the patent owner won. What was really important was that I had a rock solid decision for appeal. As you know, almost all PTAB decisions are appealed.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

July 31, 202425 min

On Trade Secret Disputes

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with James (Jim) Pooley of James Pooley, PLC.Pooley is a veteran Silicon Valley trial lawyer with deep knowledge of trade secrets and patents who spent five years as manager of the international patent system (PCT) for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. In this episode, we discuss trade secret disputes, how the rise of work-from-home and hybrid work have changed how companies approach trade secrets, differing approaches to trade secrets in different jurisdictions, and more.“Recent statistics show that, during an average career, an employee will move 11 times to different companies. So the dynamic of this environment is one of constantly figuring out what the threats are to the integrity of the information that you have and the people that you have to share it with,” Pooley explains.“We are so far beyond the old cottage system of having just a few people who work on producing products. We now have very complicated products and services that require large numbers of people, and we have to trust them.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

July 24, 202420 min

On Inventorship and Patent Applications

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Joanna Brougher, Owner & Principal, BioPharma Law Group, PLLC.Brougher is a patent attorney who focuses on all aspects of services related to patents in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, including patentability opinions, due diligence, patent drafting, domestic and foreign patent prosecution, development and management of patent portfolios, and general client counseling during all phases of a product’s lifecycle, from concept to commercialization.She is also a former Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health and the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology.We talk about inventorship in patent applications, inventorship disputes, incorrect or incomplete inventorship, IP for biotechnology compared to other fields, and more.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

July 17, 202425 min

On Making Career Transitions that are Right for You

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client relationship management and wellness.Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we talk about making career transitions that are right for you, with guest Erica Buell. Buell is a Founder and Startup Legal Advisor at Buell Law, PLLC and a former professor and director of the Law and Entrepreneurship program at Duke University. Over the course of her very varied career, Erica has worked in big law, as an in-house attorney, a tech startup consultant and a stay at home parent. We talk about how to use your instincts to find a job and a team that provide you purpose and fulfillment without burning out.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

July 10, 202422 min

On Practice Pointers for Patent Appeals

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Coke Morgan Stewart, Senior Counsel at O’Melveny.Stewart is a seasoned intellectual property and appellate litigator with decades of experience in private practice and government service. She served as the second highest-ranking officer of the United States Patent & Trademark Office, and as Deputy Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia.We talk about writing successful patent appeal briefs, pointers for improving brief writing, the patent appeal process and more.“You want to win on the first page, as the saying goes. But you really just want to orient the judges to your case, and make them a little bit interested in what you're going to say,” Stewart tells us. “I think of the introduction, or the brief, as a movie. The introduction is a trailer to the movie that the court is about to see. Definitely don't overlook that opportunity.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

June 26, 202422 min

On Best Practices for Biotech Patent Portfolios

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Stephen C. Hall, Partner at Wyatt.Hall is a patent attorney and former research and development chemist who specializes in patent creation and drafting patents for biotechnology, medical therapy, physical science and information processing clients.Hall discusses protecting biotech innovations with patents, keys to portfolio management, what questions practitioners should ask their clients and more.“Always start with what problem the company is solving: Why has it been difficult in the past for others to solve it? I think that's usually a good starting point. Obviously you want to get into what is the portfolio, what assets are held, and what is it that makes the company valuable, but at the highest level, come up with the message. What problem is being solved?” Hall asks.“Another way to look at it, and this is actually a pretty good question to ask yourself as an intellectual property attorney or maybe even as a client: What's different in the field because you're in it; because your company is in it?”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

June 18, 202423 min

On Transitioning from Law to Mediation

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. We are coming to you a day early this week because of the Juneteenth holiday. We’re featuring a discussion on mediation with Mike Strauss, the co-founder of Strauss and Strauss.This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including client relationship management and wellness. The conversation with Strauss was originally recorded for the AccelPro Employment Law community, however, it is relevant to all in the legal field.He walks us through the steps, skills and abilities necessary to make the transition from lawyer to mediator. Strauss says his years of experience as a litigator have been crucial in preparing him for his new role.“I wanted to have the credibility that comes from settling eight-figure cases, but also having to negotiate a walkaway for zero dollars because of something coming up that was wholly unexpected,” he says.“I wanted to be able to step in a room and explain, I’ve won these cases at trial, but I’ve also lost these cases at trial. I’ve won arguments at the court of appeal. I’ve lost arguments at the court of appeal. I’ve even had the court of appeal reversed by the United States Supreme Court in one of my cases.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

June 12, 202419 min

On Brand Extensions and Intellectual Property

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Evan Naar, corporate counsel at WHP.Naar is the co-host of End Scene, an entertainment law podcast, and former Assistant General Counsel at Beanstalk. Naar discusses licensing agreements, brand extensions, what practitioners should understand about the process and more. Note this interview was recorded in April 2024 and the answers reflect Naar's previous position at Beanstalk.“I really think licensing is a huge core component of entertainment. It's a multi-billion dollar industry and it's really how a lot of these companies make a ton of money,” Naar explains.“IP is king, right? That's why you see so many Ghostbusters movies, and then "moichendizing!" as Mel Brooks says in Spaceballs. It's all about merchandising.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to questions@joinaccelpro.com. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com