Stuff You Should Know About IP

CISCO is ordered by the US District Court of Virginia to pay $1,9 BILLION dollars to Centripetal Networks, Inc. in what may be the LARGEST PATENT INFRINGEMENT DAMAGES AWARD EVER!

What if you could reverse engineer a trade secret? What is reverse engineering? This week we had Candice Renaldo join us to talk about Claire Saffitz on Bon Apetit’s show “Gourmet Makes” where she went on a delicious adventure to reverse-engineer Skittles!

Semiconductor Giant Qualcomm wins a long-running battle with the FTC. Is this the IP verdict of the century? What does this mean for the future of IP licensing?

Former Google executive Anthony Levandowski gets 18 months prison time and $179m in civil damages for stealing Trade Secrets related to self-driving car technology. Joined by Todd Bailey, Tom Colson and I discuss how this case is the perfect example of how Trade Secret theft can happen and why it is so bad for all parties!

Trump bans TikTok parent company ByteDance, but that’s not the video-sharing giant’s only woe. Popular music/video editing social media app Triller is also suing TikTok for… you guessed it… patent infringement! Will Microsoft still buy? Tune in to get the scoop.

The “Protecting America from Spies Act” was recently introduced by republican members of congress to ensure espionage and Intellectual Property theft is considered inadmissible for entry into the United States. If you can believe it, under current law, spies expelled from the USA can immediately reapply for visas!

Donald Trump “Won’t Back Down” and Tom Petty’s family/estate isn’t very happy about it. This story is a great case-study for music licensing and #copyright laws. Does the #Trump man have a right to use this song? Listen to this episode and find out!

Is it Impossible, Incredible, or both? We sat down with Jan-Willem Goedmakers to discuss the Trademark battle between Impossible Foods and Nestle’s Incredible Burger.

Does Anthony Fauci own patents on the SARS-COV-2 vaccine/treatment? And if so, does this spell corruption? On this episode, we discuss IP Ownership, patent assignment, and how you can have an inventive contribution to patented product but not necessarily benefit financially.

Can you change your name to a Trademark? What is a “famous” mark? Tom and I sat down with Jan-Willem Goedmakers to discuss these topics, and how Joe Lycett changed his name to Hugo Boss.