Patently Strategic - Patent Strategy for Startups
A patent focused podcast for inventors, founders, and IP professionals, covering the finer points, sharp edges, and nuances of startup patent strategy. Each monthly episode will feature a round-table style discussion amongst experts in the field of patenting. Patently Strategic is brought to you by Aurora Consulting, a patent strategy boutique that specializes in working with early stage life science, medical device, digital health, and software companies to develop valuable patent portfolios through highly tailored, comprehensive strategies.
Episodes
38 episodes since 2021
Continuation Practice: Quality Patents Part 3
There’s not a more important concept that’s more widely misunderstood by those newer to patenting than continuations. So we’re dedicating Part 3 of our series on quality patents to everything you need to know about this essential step for futur...
September 06, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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1:14:50
PTAB Survival Guide: Quality Patents Part 2
The most terrifying thing that can happen to a patent owner is receiving what’s called an IPR or Inter Partes Review petition. This is a tool that accused infringers can use to invalidate patents. And they have … to alarming effect. As we’ve di...
August 01, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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1:10:21
Quality Patents
Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality. Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for yo...
July 02, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:03:35
Inventor Stories: Robert Cameron and the Power of Perseverance
We’ve seen few entrepreneurial success stories that haven’t involved heavy doses of perseverance, grit, observation, and creative problem-solving. Today’s guest possesses these qualities in spades. And while I can’t necessarily recommend some o...
June 03, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:06:35
CAFC Chronicles: Costly Tales of Claim Construction Fails
The difference between getting claim construction right and getting it wrong is the difference between a valid patent and an invalid patent – and the difference between millions of dollars awarded from infringement decisions vs. ending up with ...
May 01, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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1:02:17
Patents and AI: Current Tools, Future Solutions
We’re talking about AI and its impact on the patent system.This month's episode evaluates where we presently are and considers where it could all be heading. Dr. David Jackr...
March 20, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:07:41
James Howard and the Black Inventors Hall of Fame
Our interview with James Howard, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Inventors Hall of Fame.James Howard is a college professor, design historian, entrepreneur, industrial designer, inventor, filmmaker, and restauranteur. He bri...
February 22, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:05:09
Claim Construction: Building Strong Patent Foundations
Claim construction is a process in which courts attempt to interpret the meaning and scope of the claims of a patent. It’s like reconstructing what an inventor and their practitioner meant back when they drafted the patent application. While yo...
January 31, 2024
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:11:10
Patenting Games: From Pieces to Pixels
From patenting classic boardgames like Monopoly and Battleship back in the 1930s to challenges with protecting modern innovations in areas like game development and VR, our experts are breaking down everything you need to know about patenting g...
November 24, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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57:16
Patent Claims: The Name of the Game
We’re talking about claims – the fundamental building blocks of a patent. There simply is not a more important concept to grasp in all of patenting. As a former chief justice of the Federal Circuit once famously said, “The name of the game is t...
October 06, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:07:54
Government Grants and Patent Rights: SBIR, STTR, and Your IP
In this month's episode, we’re talking about the use of government grants and the strings that can come attached to your IP! We’re exploring the various types of small business research grants, how the Bayh-Dole Act regulates inventions generat...
September 06, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:03:33
Jack Daniels, Mickey Mouse, and Andy Warhol Walk Into a Bar
In this month’s episode, we’re talking about Jack Daniels, Mickey Mouse, Andy Warhol, Jason Voorhees, Winnie-the-Pooh, Lizzo, and WallStreetBets … What do they have to do with patents you might fairly be wondering? Honestly, not much. P...
July 27, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:51:46
Why Patents Exist with Professor Adam Mossoff
Why do patents exist in the first place? What function do they serve in society? And what is their historic origin story? In this month’s episode, with the help of Professor Adam Mossoff, we zoom way out, turn the time dial back a bit, and focu...
June 27, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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2:06:27
What Investors Want in Patents with Sridhar Iyengar
What do investors want to see in patents? What do patents tell a potential investor about a founder? And what do investors wish inventors knew before coming to them?To answer these questions and more, we're joined this month by Dr. Srid...
May 30, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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54:51
Open Source and Patent Rights: Collaboration with Consequences
How does the use of or contribution to open-source software impact your intellectual property rights? In this month's episode, we’re talking about software and the convoluted risk/reward interplay between patents, copyrights, and open s...
April 27, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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52:07
Patent Wars: Innovators, Revolutionaries, and the Race to Reform
In this month's episode, we're talking patent reform solutions with Judge Paul Michel, Professor Adam Mossoff, and Randy Landreneau!Nearly two decades worth of Federal Circuit and Supreme Court rulings have thrown the patent system into...
March 28, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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2:34:42
SCOTUS in Focus: Amgen v. Sanofi and the Future of Pharma Patents
We’re leading off Season 3 with a close look at a Supreme Court patent case that could have profound impacts on the invention enablement problems we covered heavily in Seas...
February 27, 2023
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:25:11
License to File: Foreign Filing License Risks and Strategies
Foreign filing licenses – surprisingly sneaky and easy to overlook, but can come with significant consequences if you do. Many countries, including the US, require inventors to receive special permission to file with patent offices outside of t...
January 26, 2023
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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42:33
Top 3 Inventor Mistakes: Disclosure, Search, and Ownership
If there were a guidebook we could hand to inventors on the first day following the conception of their idea, this episode would be it. When is it safe to talk about or sell your invention? How do you hedge against invalidation and reje...
December 28, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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48:56
Unpredictable Arts: Patenting Bio, Chem, and Emerging Technologies
Think your innovation is sufficiently enabled to secure, defend, and assert your patent rights? If it’s a biological, chemical, or emerging technology invention then you might want to think again. In today’s episode we’re looking into how to ge...
November 29, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:04:13
Into the Patentverse Vol. 2: AR, VR, and Virtual Infringement
We’re slipping our headsets on and heading back into the Metaverse! Earlier this year, we began our foray into this world with a deep dive into the building blocks that could very well form the structural and economic underpinnings of the Metav...
October 27, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:01:38
Means-Plus-Function: The Risk of Losing Your Way
Word choice matters a great deal in the world of patenting. You’re using the English language to draw a picture around highly technical concepts. The precision with which this is done, down to the semantic level, can make all of the difference ...
September 27, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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50:38
From Alice to Axle: IP Uncertainty for the Innovation Economy
In today’s episode, we’re discussing a recent court decision that judges have said could threaten "most every invention for which a patent has ever been granted", turning the patent system into a "litigation gamble."
August 29, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:00:02
Prenuptial Patenting: Responsible Engagement with Engineering Firms
You have your big idea and now it’s time to breathe it into existence, but you need some help with the development. Like many others, you may turn to the aid of an engineering firm or dev shop. This relationship is a marriage of sorts. But it’s...
July 28, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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54:44
Fortifying Life Science Patents: Eligibility and Enablement
The life sciences are currently facing at least two major plagues in our patent world. The first is that many life science innovations have been deemed ineligible in terms of patentable subject matter. In other words, the courts and the patent ...
June 29, 2022
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:09:10