A selection of exclusive audio-video interviews with some of the key personalities in the world of intellectual property.
An interview with Andrew Sant at the third IP Business Congress in Munich.
An interview with Béatrix de Russé at the third IP Business Congress in Munich.
An interview with Bill Elkington at the third IP Business Congress in Munich.
An interview with Joe Beyers at the third IP Business Congress in Munich.
An interview with Scott Frank at the IP Business Congress in Munich.
An interview with Wulf Hoeflich at the third IP Business Congress in Munich.
An interview with François Jamet at the IP Business Congress in Munich.
An interview with Ruud Peters at the IP Business Congress in Munich.
USPTO director David Kappos discusses his plans to improve patent quality and maximise agency efficiency. Interviewed at the third IP Business Congress in Munich
Marshall Phelps, corporate vice president for IP policy and strategy at Microsoft, and David Kline, co-author of Rembrandts in the Attic, discuss their book Burning the Ships: IP and the Transformation of Microsoft; as well as the attributes a top class chief IP officer needs to possess. Look out, too, for Phelps's reaction to David Kappos being nominated as the next director of the USPTO
Four chief intellectual property officers - Béatrix de Russé of Thomson; Scott Frank of AT&T; Bill Elkington of Rockwell Collins; and Erin-Michael Gill, formerly of OQO Inc - discuss the CIPO role and how it is developing, along with Ron Laurie of Inflexion Point Strategy and Rob Sterne of Sterne Kessler
Ruud Peters, CEO of Philips IP & Standards, and Caroline Kamerbeek, its head of communications, discuss the formation of the IP Brand Development Group, the importance of reaching out to SMEs and why communicating the value of IP to a general audience matters so much.
IP Hall of Fame 09 inductee Michael Kirk, the former executive director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Interviewed at the second IP Business Congress in Chicago.
IP Hall of Fame 09 inductee Dolores Hanna, the first female president of the International Trademark Association.
Interviewed at the second IP Business Congress in Chicago.
IP Hall of Fame 09 inductee Niels Reimers, one of the founders of the Association of University Technology Managers and the former head of the Stanford technology licensing operation.
Interviewed at the second IP Business Congress in Chicago.
Todd Dickinson, executive director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, discusses David Kappos's nomination as the next director of the USPTO, the challenges he faces and what his priorities should be; the progress of patent reform legislation through Congress; the changing US IP environment; and the Supreme Court's decision to hear the Bilski case.