HIPerspectives

In this episode of HIPerspectives, Glassbreakers CEO and co-founder, Eileen Carey, talks about solving the diversity problem, the highs and lows of startup life, building culture from scratch, and how music helps her “crush it.”

Welcome to HIPerspectives!

In this episode, Theresa Kushner, VP, Information Innovation Center at VMWare, shares her journey from the emerging days of big data … to writing a couple books … to her path to the best job ever.  Talk about working joy! She invites you to share your stories about data by reaching out to her at [email protected]. And she shares some of what makes the culture at VMWare so special. Listen in and be inspired.

Monitoring the competition is an important part of protecting your intellectual property – in some cases, for example, to maintain your trademarks, you need to ensure others are not misusing your IP. Keeping an eye on what your competitors are doing (in a legally-proper way) also helps maintain the competitive advantage you derive from your intellectual property – which really should be the purpose for protecting your IP in the first place. When a competitor launches a product that looks very similar to your technology, and you realize they recently hired engineers who worked on your technology, what do you do? Do you have patents or trade secrets that prevent them from selling their new product? Even if you do, should you act? Are there pitfalls to be aware of? These are just some considerations covered by the HIPLegal partners in this episode, discussing what to do when a competitor appears to be infringing your IP rights.

In this episode of HIPerspectives, our awesome guest Dawnet Beverley will take you on a journey to discover the secrets to confidence and vulnerability and how both facets fit into leadership.  The key that ties them together?  Your truth. Listen in to understand what that means and how to find your truth.  Dawnet also shares her insights about mentoring and reveals an important connection between golf and leadership.

In earlier IP Basics episodes, the HIPLegal partners discussed how IP rights – like patents, copyrights, trademarks – come into existence and when you might need permission to use someone else’s IP rights. This episode builds on those prior episodes to explore strategies for the licensee – the one who wants rights to someone else’s intellectual property – when negotiating for a license. We return to the example of Annie’s pencil and walk through what rights we need to fill a customer order.

Our first guest of 2016 is an awesome young woman – Sanika Mahajan.  Sanika is a high school student who joined HIPLegal as a summer intern in 2015.  Take a short trip down memory lane as you listen to Sanika’s experience in high school. You’ll hear her take on the conversation around girls/women in STEM and be reminded of just how tough the demands of high school (and all those extracurricular activities) can be.  As we focus this year on the election of our next leader, it is reassuring to know that we have young people like Sanika in the pipeline for future leadership in our country!

View the Elephant in the Valley Survey Results here. Then, please find someone to talk with about the results and what solutions we can find to change these numbers.

In 2015, HIPLegal launched its HIPerspectives podcast to provide basic IP information, highlight awesome women, and tee up some women’s leadership issues to trigger a broader conversation about solutions to our continued gender diversity disparity.  In this episode, we take a look back at some of the advice our guests gave us and celebrate our working joy.  Happy New Year!

Increasing diversity requires bringing different voices into the mix. For gender diversity, we need to hear the perspective of men to make true progress closing the gender gap.  In this special topic, prior podcast guest Denise Brosseau (Episode 8) shares her perspective on the need to bring men into the conversation about women’s leadership – and the need to take ourselves less seriously and laugh a bit more.  Listen in to hear Denise’s wise insights and, the next time you are organizing a women’s conference or collecting a group to discuss women’s leadership issues, consider whether the conversation will be expanded with men in the room. Have some thoughts on this topic? Email us at [email protected] or tweet your thoughts using @HIP_Legal or #hiperspectives.

It’s not every day that you meet a lawyer you’d like to hang out with and listen to for hours. But today you get to meet Paula Boggs. Having accomplished more as a lawyer than most lawyers could dream of (White House lawyer, Starbucks GC, the list goes on…), Paula now fronts her own band, sings, and writes music. What may seem to be a huge change in direction is less so when explained by Paula. And, unsurprisingly, working joy plays a part in her story. Hear Paula’s story about her interesting career path, a different take on diversity, and learn about her superpower. You’ll hear some samples of her music during the podcast. To hear more, check out her site.

When Paula is not making music, she’s making progress.  Her media company, Boggs Media, has teamed up with My Brother’s Keeper Alliance and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

A special thanks to Richard Hsu (host and producer of podcast Hsu Untied) for the introduction to Paula, and congratulations on your recognition in the 9th Annual Blawg 100!

Looking to get a jump on your new software product and turning to open source software to keep development costs down? Knowing the terms of the licenses associated with that open source software is critical, as it could impact protection of your software product. In this episode, the HIPLegal partners walk through some of the pitfalls to keep an eye out for, and offer some tips for how to navigate and track the different licenses you might encounter in the open source space. If you are leveraging open source software in the development of your products – or just curious about open source software – this episode is for you.

Interested in the Hipower program? Check it out here.

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