Cipher Vision Nigel Swycher and Francesca Levoir

In our Season finale, our hosts Francesca and Nigel introduce a medley of the best snippets from Season 3. Tune in to enjoy our highlights and key takeaways from our impressive range of guests.

Ann Chaplin, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Qualcomm joined us to discuss how strong patent protection fosters innovation globally, stressing the need for balanced regulation and increased diversity in inventors.

Highlights from our chat included:

- An overview of the lack of diversity in US patents and Qualcomm’s initiatives for inclusivity
- The crucial role that strong IP rights plays in global innovation and investment
- A discussion on the effectiveness of proposed laws and market-driven licensing.
- An introduction to Qualcomm’s latest technological developments in automotive, connectivity, Internet of Things (IoT) and multimedia.

Andrei Iancu, Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell and former Director of the USPTO joined us to shares his views on government intervention and the impact on innovation.

Highlights from our chat included:

- The importance of modernizing and strengthening IP rights
- The necessity of maximizing creativity and innovational strength
- Insight into Standard Essential Patent regulation
- His perspective on how diversity in innovation can be advanced

Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network joined us to explore the relationship between IP and open-source, sharing the benefits and challenges of open-source collaboration and Open Invention Network’s role in preserving patent freedom

Highlights from our chat include:

- Insight into the Open Invention Network (OIN) and how it supports innovation
- How open-source collaboration and intellectual property collide
- An overview of the threats currently facing open-source
- The future of open-source and the direction that OIN is headed

Anjanette Lecher, Director, Intellectual Asset Management at Corning Incorporated shared with us her love of intellectual property, discussing how to take a customer-centric approach when analysing and presenting data, adopting the correct tools to support efficiency and visualisations. She highlighted the importance of a diverse team, and the need to make IP accessible.

Highlights from our chat include:

- How the perception of intellectual property has changed over time
- The importance of visualising data, to convey it’s value
- Insight into the diversity initiatives Corning supports
- Advice on implementing new technologies and approaches

Marco Richter, Global Head of Customer Success at LexisNexis Intellectual Property highlights the important role that patents play in helping us to become more sustainable, discussing the benefit of measuring innovation in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Highlights from our chat included:

- An overview of how the UN SDGs can be translated into patent data
- The need to utilise transparent and measurable data to record sustainability outcomes
- Insight into the increased market demand for sustainable patents
- The role of consumers in driving sustainable innovation across business