Coffee Break the Podcast IP Counsel Cafe

What are the filing trends in India, Japan, Singapore and the United States?  New technologies are evolving very quickly.  How are patent offices training their examiners on new technologies?  Sandy Chan at IP Counsel Cafe speaks with John Cabeca, U.S. IP Counselsor for South Asia, Will Cheng at LinkedIn, Miku Mehta at Procopio, Rena Sato at NEDO/Japan Patent Office, and Alfred Yip at the IP Office of Singapore.  

The Medical Device industry faces a host of different issues and considerations which impact their IP strategy.  Sandy Chan of IP Counsel Cafe speaks with Derek Minihane, Vice President, R&D at Cochlear, a global leader in implantable hearing solutions, and Miku Mehta, Partner at Procopio law firm where he focus on Asia-Pacific Practice.  They will discuss where Cochlear decides to file for IP protection and why, how busiess and IP protection have evolved over the past three years, and much more.  

 

 

Over the past two years, we have witnessed an acceleration in business changes and shifting global markets.  These factors require companies to reconsider their foreign filing strategies in order to best protect their company's intellectual property.  Join us for a conversation with Micheal Binns, Associate General Counsel on the Patent, Licensing and Open Source Team at Meta; Miku Mehta, Partner at Procopio law firm; and Alfred Yip, Director of Patent Search, Examination and Analytics Unit at IPOS International

"The Convergence of Engineering, Law & Business: A Conversation with Angela Murch"
Angela Murch is Vice President of Law, IP, and Compliance at Rani Therapeutics, a company that has developed the RaniPill™, a platform technology that delivers biologics via a swallowed medical device to eliminate the need for patients to give themselves injections.  The research and technology behind Rani Therapeutics came out of InCube Labs, a company that creates and develops medical device concepts, forming startups to commercialize the concepts. Previously, Angela was Vice President of IP at InCube Labs.
Prior to InCube, Angela was an IP attorney at Foley & Lardner LLP and earlier at Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC, specializing in patent prosecution and patent litigation. Before venturing into a legal career, Angela was an engineer for fifteen years, specializing in electronic control systems for automotive applications and for the solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle.
Angela holds a BSEE from Michigan State University, an MSEE from University of Michigan, and a JD from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is admitted to the California bar and is registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
 

How does Japan fit into your global IP strategy?  Miku Mehta, Partner at Procopio law firm, moderates this discussion with Nobuo Tanaka, a Japanese patent attorney and U.S. patent agent who is currently General Manager of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, and Yoshinari Oyama, a former patent examiner and administrative judge at the Japan Patent Office, and currently the Senior Director of the NEDO Silicon Valley Office, responsible for research on R&D and intellectual property. 

How does India fit into your Global IP Strategy?  Sandy Chan speaks with Srihari SK, Partner at Indian law firm, K&S Partners about the business landscape and recent developments in India's IP system.