This time we talk about our own ways into intellectual property and also we chat about protection of wearable technology.

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IP FRIDAYS

 

 

 

Co-Presenters:

 

Rolf Claessen and Kenneth Suzan

 

 

 

Episode 10 – September 5, 2014

 

 

 

RC =   Rolf Claessen

 

KS =    Kenneth Suzan

 

 

 

 

 

This is Jeanine Percival Wright, the Director of Legal Affairs for Intellectual Property and Litigation with True Religion Brand Jeans in beautiful Los Angeles, California. You are listening to IP Fridays. Thanks for the great podcast guys.

 

 

 

KS:      Hello and welcome to this episode of IP Fridays.  Our names are Ken Suzan and Rolf Claessen and this is THE podcast dedicated to intellectual property.  It does not matter where you are from, in-house or private practice, novice or expert, we will help you stay up-to-date with current topics in the fields of trademarks, patents, design and copyright, discover useful tools and much more.

 

 

 

RC:      Welcome back to another episode of IP Fridays.  We are very happy that you tuned in to this episode and today we are actually talking to you about ourselves.  A lot of our listeners requested us to tell more about ourselves — like how we got into the IP field, and what we actually do, and just a little bit more background and then also we are very happy that Mondaq, a popular news site in the legal field, has picked up our podcast and more about that later on and also Ken tells you about recent trademark developments in the wearable technology field. 

 

 

 

So, first we want to tell you more about ourselves.  So maybe I will ask you first, Ken, when you first started school you first picked up history and political science in 1989 and so why did you pick this and why did you then move into law?

 

 

 

KS:      Well, when I went to the University of Rochester, I always knew that history and political science were the things that I enjoyed most.  We could go back to high school days, I think social studies, and English and writing were always some of my favorite things to do so it was sort of a natural fit.  I enjoyed the programming as well as the academics at the University of Rochester and that was my joint major.  When I went to college, I also knew that I wanted to become a lawyer the whole time so it was sort of a natural progression that developed.  I indeed did then go on to attend Albany Law School of Union University located in Albany, New York.  I loved school so much, that I continued on to NYU School of Law for their LL.M. program in Trade Regulation and I focused on trademarks, copyrights and Internet law while attending there.

 

 

 

RC:      Yes, you got your JD from Albany Law and then an LL.M. from NYU so that’s really exciting because both are really prestigious schools.

 

 

 

KS:      Well, it was great to go there.  I learned a lot and made a lot of great connections and friends and it was an interesting time.  You know, the Internet was really getting going in the sense that the law was changing.  I had written about music distribution on the Internet actually back in 1995, so that goes way back since we’re almost coming up to 2015, so that’s a long, long time ago to a certain extent, but at the same time there has been a lot of water under the bridge and I am excited to keep going.  I really love IP.

 

 

 

RC:      So we nearly could have met in Albany because I attended SUNY Albany.