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IP Innovators features in-depth conversations with leading patent practitioners about their career journeys and how technological advancesâfrom automation to AIâare reshaping the way they practice law every day.
Hosted by IP journalist Steve Brachmann, each episode offers candid insights from attorneys on the front lines of innovation, sharing how they adapt, grow, and lead in a rapidly changing IP landscape.
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In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with Scott Kelly, Founding Partner and Head of Practice at KellDann, to explore what happens when a patent attorney decides that "good enough" AI-drafted patents aren't good enough. Drawing on nearly 17 years in the fieâĻ
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In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with David Hyams, Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer of Longship Legal, to explore what happens when a patent attorney stops asking, "Is this patentable?" and starts asking "What is this business actuallyâĻ
In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with Emily Teesdale, Founder of Pivot IP, to explore what fractional IP leadership actually looks like, and why smaller engineering companies are leaving serious value on the table without it. Drawing on more than 20 years in the fielâĻ
In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with Drew McElligott, Counsel at Crowell & Moring, to explore what AI actually looks like inside a modern law firmâand why, as McElligott puts it, âwriterâs block is pretty much dead.â From litigation and Hatch-Waxman strategy to âĻ
In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with Stephanie Curcio, CEO and co-founder of NL Patent, to explore how AI has evolved from concept-based prior art search to touching every stage of the patent lifecycle. Stephanie reflects on her journey from patent prosecution to leâĻ
In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with Phil Harris, Equity Partner and Patent Practice Group Leader at Holland & Hart, to trace his journey from mechanical engineering to leading one of the most tech-forward IP teams in the Mountain West.Â
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In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with Mark Kesslen, Partner and Chair of the IP Group at Lowenstein Sandler, to trace his path from electrical engineering to chief patent counsel on Wall Streetâand how that fintech vantage point shapes his practice today. We dig intoâĻ
In this episode of IP Innovators, we sit down with Aaron Capron, partner and head of the Patent Office Practice at Finnegan, to trace his unconventional path from Lockheedâs GPS labs to leading one of the busiest patent prosecution teams in the U.S. đ°ī¸âī¸
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In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann talks with Chris Agrawal, Managing Partner at Bookoff McAndrews, about his journey from sifting through stacks of physical patents at the USPTO to building a cloud-first, tech-forward IP practice. đâĄī¸đ¤
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In this first episode of IP Innovators, veteran patent attorney Paul Hunter, Partner and Electronics Practice Co-Chair at Foley & Lardner, shares his journey from filing patents using fax machines to leading an AI-accelerated practice. A candid look at how real careers adaptâand thriveâas technâĻ
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