IPWatchdog Unleashed

What Went Wrong and How do we Fix the Patent System?


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This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I speak with my long-time friend, John White. Many in the patent community no doubt already know John quite well. Over 30 years ago he created the PLI Patent Bar Review Course that upwards of 40,000 patent practitioners have successfully used to study for the Patent Bar Exam. Today, John continues to teach the patent bar review, but he is also Special Counsel with Harness IP, where he represents clients all over the world and provides expert witness services.

I’ve known John since 1999 when I first started teaching the PLI Patent Bar Review Course, and we have been great friends ever since.  Our conversation this week was much like any number of conversations we have had over the years over dinner or drinks.

What prompted me to ask John to speak with us this week was an article he recently wrote, which we published on IPWatchdog. It was styled as an open letter to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency. In that article John explains that “the patent system is currently foundered”, but that it can be fixed with “focus and ongoing commitment to see the fixes through to results.” So, that is where we start our conversation, like so many we have had over the last 26 years—what is wrong with the patent system and how should it be fixed. 

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