Fire of Genius

In this episode of Fire of Genius, Amy, Vanessa, and Sam discuss tattoo art copyright issues in commercial material such as video games and movie posters. 

On this episode of Fire of Genius, Maggie, Nicole, and Stephanie discuss the impact of social media terms of service on user generated IP.  They further discuss their thoughts on addressing the conflict caused by granting a nonexclusive license to copyrightable works posted on social media. 

On this week's episode of Fire of Genius, Audio Editor, Megan Wheeler, and Associate, Sydney Schnur, sit down with Eyal Barash to discuss strategies for patenting of pharmaceuticals that may be repurposed.  Eyal has over two decades of experience as a patent lawyer. Prior to starting Barash Law in 2009, he was chief patent counsel to SSCI, the world’s leader in solid-state chemistry. Before working for SSCI, Eyal practiced patent prosecution, litigation, and client counseling at a large intellectual property law firm in Washington, D.C. Eyal attended Indiana University where received undergraduate degrees in chemistry and history before making his way to California where he obtained a masters degree in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.

On this week's episode of Fire of Genius, Graham, Rob, and Ahsan discuss how the inter partes review (IRP) procedure contesting patentability of a pharmaceutical has created suspicions of stock shorting; the group predominantly uses Kyle Bass's recent IRP claims and resulting economics of his practices as a case study. 

On this week's episode of Fire of Genius, Caroline, Taylor, and Maya discuss the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's 'frightening' experience with fraudulent filings.  The Associates also discuss what measures are being considered in combatting these practices.    

On this week’s episode of Fire of Genius, Maggie, Nicole, and Stephanie discuss the greatly followed case Warhol v. Goldsmith and whether the Prince Series prints infringe Goldsmith's copyright or whether they are transformative enough to be deemed preliminary social commentary to meet Fair Use Standards.

On this week’s episode of Fire of Genius, Jacob, Sydney, and Karen discuss whether patents are property or private rights.

 On this week's episode of Fire of Genius, Associates, Amy, Vanessa, and Sam, discuss the ways in which BIPOC creators are harmed or disadvantaged by Intellectual Property law (or lack thereof) and potential remedies to fix this inequity. 

On this week's episode of Fire of Genius, Associates, Caroline, Taylor, and Maya summarize and discuss Moderna's lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech, which claim that the pair violated Moderna's mRNA patents.  These lawsuits have been filed after Moderna formerly pledged not to bring suit against them during the pandemic crisis. 

On this week's episode of Fire of Genius, Audio Editor, Megan Wheeler, sits down with Josie Little, third year law student at University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, to discuss her article, McRussia: The Weaponization of Intellectual Property.  Josie shares updates in the aggressive policies and laws pertaining to copyright and trademark that Russia has been taking in response to sanctions against them stemming from their war on Ukraine.