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IPWatchdog Unleashed

Gene Quinn

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Each week we journey into the world of intellectual property to discuss the law, news, policy and politics of innovation, technology, and creativity. With analysis and commentary from industry thought leaders and newsmakers from around the world, IPWatchdog Unleashed is hosted by world renowned patent attorney and founder of IPWatchdog.com, Gene Quinn.

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Should We Fear Gen AI? Promises, Pitfalls, and the Path Forward

Season 2 · Episode 28

Monday, July 14, 2025 • Duration 51:46

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed my conversation is with my friend Wen Xie. Many of you probably already know Wen. If you've been to IPWatchdog events, you've undoubtedly met her already, and you've heard her speak on our stage and in our webinars about various topics related to patent practice and procedure.

Wen has more than a decade of experience as a U.S. patent attorney, and her specialty is with software and artificial intelligence (AI). She recently founded Lex Lumen Intellectual Property law firm, where she engages in representation with a client-centered focus that fuses digital modernity with a traditional patent practice.

We begin our conversation by giving Wen an open mic opportunity to share her thoughts on the state of the industry, with me specifically asking: What was on your mind as you drove to the studio today?

“You just asked me just now before we started filming, should we be afraid of AI,” Wen begins. “And my answer is there's no point in being afraid because it's coming… AI is coming in every profession, every technology."

After discussing Issac Asimov's three rules for robots, our conversation takes a turn toward innovation and patents. Can AI contribute originality at this point in its development that would be properly considered conception within the legal definition of inventing. We also discuss the importance of prompting, and how it can and should be used to streamline patent practice and drafting.

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Coping with Alice: Strategies for Winning on Patent Eligibility

Season 2 · Episode 27

Monday, July 7, 2025 • Duration 57:36

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we dive into patent eligibility waters, with a discussion on how patent attorneys and litigators alike can cope with Alice. Our conversation will triangulate the issue from the political perspective, from the perspective of a patent litigator who represents patent owners in federal court, and from the perspective of a patent attorney who represents clients as they attempt to obtain software patents.

Joining us this week is the Honorable Andrei Iancu, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. And as many of you no doubt know, Andrei was responsible for the 2019 Patent Eligibility Guidance from the USPTO, which has made it easier to obtain software patents from the Office, but which the Federal Circuit continues to ignore in favor of their own disjointed, unpredictable, non-repeatable test. From the patent litigator perspective we have Vince Rubino, who is a partner with Fabricant in the firm’s NY City office, and from the patent prosecution perspective we have John Rogitz, who is Managing Attorney at Rogitz & Associates.

I started our conversation giving an open mic opportunity for Andrei, Vince and John to jumpstart our conversation by giving me their big picture thoughts on 101. Andrei, who was unfortunately suffering from a bit of laryngitis, leads off.

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Patent Monetization: Assessing Today’s Environment and Tomorrow’s Prospects

Season 2 · Episode 26

Monday, June 30, 2025 • Duration 54:19

To successfully monetize a patent portfolio, it is necessary to identify the value within the portfolio and to put in the work to prove to third parties and potential partners that that value exists. But even then, even when all the hard work has been done, after quality assets have been obtained, after evidence of use has been gathered and negotiations have begun, there are no guarantees.

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we enter the world of patent monetization, with a conversation about patent licensing and dealmaking—and of course the enforcement landscape. We also discuss the impact the Patent Trial and Appeal Board at the United States Patent and Trademark Office continues to have over the industry, and particularly the influence the PTAB exerts over patent monetization and dealmaking.

Joining me this week are Russell Binns, the CEO at Allied Security Trust, Bill Geary, the Chief Strategy Officer at IDEAHUB, and Jonathan Rogers, who is Chief Operating Officer for cybersecurity leader Centripetal.

As you hear the conversation unfold we discuss that deals are still getting done and although the value of the deals currently being consummated has not increased in 2025 compared with the last several years, the number of deals being done has dramatically increased, which could very well be the first sign of a bounce in the patent marketplace on the horizon.

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Gaming Patent Litigation on Both Sides of the "v"

Season 2 · Episode 25

Monday, June 23, 2025 • Duration 59:35

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we enter the patent litigation world for a conversation about gaming the system. For too long popular sentiment has been that patent owners are bad actors simply because they are patent owners.

Obviously, just being a patent owner does not make one a bad actor, and neither does enforcing a patent against an alleged infringer. But this patent troll narrative has been quite successful and has turned everyone who owns and enforces patents into an evil archvillain.

Meanwhile, alleged infringers love to portray themselves as victims of unscrupulous patent trolls. So ineffectual is patent protection in the United States that the largest implementers who take products and services to market do not license patents, they simply engage in efficient infringement.

To break through the generalities and get to the heart of the matter we hosted a discussion on June 3 between Katie O’Sullivan, who is Senior Corporate Counsel for U.S. Litigation at Renesas Electronics, Ben Herbert, who is a partner and co-lead of the Intellectual Property Practice at Miller Barondess, and Ben Weed, who is General Counsel for Ridge, the wallet company that sells primarily on Amazon and through other online platforms.

We begin our conversation with my asking each for their initial, big picture, preliminary views on gaming patent litigation.

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Win for Small Business Patent Owners: Leveling the Patent Litigation Playing Field

Season 2 · Episode 24

Monday, June 16, 2025 • Duration 54:16

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we speak with F. Scott Kieff, who is a former Commissioner on the International Trade Commission, and Joshua Hartman, head of Merchant & Gould’s ITC practice group. Our conversation, which took place on June 4, focused on the landmark ruling by the Federal Circuit in Lashify, Inc. v. International Trade Commission. Our conversation is wide ranging and touches on the politics and history of the ITC, which Kieff explains is quite important to keep in mind as we try and decipher this decision that was 40 years in the making really. We also discuss whether the decision fits within an America First philosophy, and whether the ITC is likely to become a more accessible forum for other small business patent owners. We begin with Kieff giving us his preliminary thoughts.

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Solutions for a Better Patent System

Season 2 · Episode 23

Monday, June 9, 2025 • Duration 58:06

Ways to make a better patent system is a common theme at IPWatchdog, and we are going to get more seriously involved in that discussion over the next year as we try to bring thought leaders together for high-level, substantive conversations. And this conversation is the opening salvo in that effort.

Our panel really needs no introduction. All the members joining us this week are members of the IPWatchdog Hall of Fame. We start with Bob Stoll, is a former Commissioner for Patents at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and among other things he is an expert witness. We are also joined by retired Chief Judge Paul Michel Hall of United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The final member of the panel is Judge Pauline Newman, Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

The premise of the conversation is to identify solutions for a better patent system that would improve the current state of the system without empowering bad actors, such as patent trolls. I begin the conversation offering each of the panelists an open mic to start so they can set forth their preliminary thoughts. The conversation then evolves from there.

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Quantum Computers and the Evolution of AI

Season 2 · Episode 22

Monday, June 2, 2025 • Duration 37:37

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we have a conversation that I've wanted to have for some time. The topic this week is quantum computers. It is quite a niche topic and finding people who actually know what they're talking about is not particularly easy, but this is an enormously important topic that we should all know something about because for Artificial Intelligence (AI) to achieve all its full potential we are going to need much better and much faster computers. And whether it is ultimately quantum computing or whatever comes next, quantum computers are going to be at minimum a bridge to go from where we are right now to where most in the public already think we are in terms of AI sophistication.

This conversation was recorded as part of our annual Artificial Intelligence program, which was held April 21-23 at IPWatchdog Studios. I was joined on stage in front of a studio audience by Robert Plotkin, and Robert is the founder of BlueShift IP. He's also written for us at IPWatchdog.com, and he is also an author. His first book was Genie in the Machine was published in 2009, and dealt with computer automated innovation. Most recently his new book AI Armorwhich deals with securing intellectual property protection for AI innovations, was published in 2024. Also joining the conversation was Sarah Schlotter, who is an attorney with Wolf Greenfield in Boston. Sarah is a member of the firm’s Electrical & Computer Technologies practice group, and she holds a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University. Both Robert and Sarah regularly represent clients with respect to AI innovations, and particularly with respect to quantum hardware and quantum software inventions.

We discuss one of the core mysteries of quantum mechanics, which says that a particle can exist in multiple states simultaneously and also be in multiple locations at once. This concept explains how two or more particles can be linked in such a way that they share the same condition or state regardless of distance, a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, which Einstein referred to as “spooky action at a distance”.

Patent Blame Game: Are 70% of U.S. Patents Really Defective?

Season 2 · Episode 21

Monday, May 26, 2025 • Duration 24:09

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I do not have a guest. Instead I want to take this opportunity to share my thoughts on the complex intersection between patent quality, patent examination and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). My interest in speaking today about these issues is triggered by the confirmation hearing last week for John Squires, who is President Trump’s nominee to be the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

During the hearing, Squires said his focus will be on making sure patents are, in his words, “born strong” because the PTAB has shown that 68% of issued patents are defective. This response from Squires has caused great concern for some who understood him to be saying that he believes the U.S. patent system is suffering from the issuance of low-quality patents.

The reason this is so concerning is because the debate surrounding patent quality in the United States has historically focused on the notion that the Patent Office is letting too many bad patents slip through, a notion that has been promoted by a cast of characters and high-profile companies that have championed the very existence of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as well as the creation and use of various procedures that have made it ever more easy to strip patents away from patent owners.

The problem with the low-patent quality narrative is that it just isn’t true.

But does Squires believe the Patent Office is really issuing low quality patents and that is the problem? Does he believe the PTAB is doing a good job and is correct to find 70% of patents completely defective? Or does he believe the PTAB is aggressively overactive and should focus on error correction only where there is obviously a mistake and stop engaging in second guess of patent examiners? These are important questions, which didn’t get asked or answered as too many Senators used his hearing as an opportunity for scoring political points with the DOJ nominees who were having their hearing alongside Squires.

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IP and the Wild West Landscape of AI

Season 2 · Episode 20

Monday, May 19, 2025 • Duration 55:39

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I speak with Allison Gaul who serves as legal counsel for Boston Consulting Group. She is responsible for evaluating digital products with an eye towards intellectual property strategy, value creation, and legal risk. She is also a recovering, or at least former patent attorney. She does still advise BCG on patent issues, but she is not drafting and prosecuting patent applications at this point. We begin our conversation with me asking about what she believes are the biggest legal issues in the IP world today.

Gaul did identify several things that stay top of mind for her, with various issues relating to data front and center as the top issue. The second area identified by Gaul was open source, and how many of the AI companies promoting “open source” are really not truly open source because often the model, weights and/or training data are not made available, which makes it seem like these companies are racing to gain market share and ultimately “doing a little bit of a switcheroo.” The third and final thing that Gaul identifies as being constantly top of mind is the overall speed of AI development.

We also discuss how the future will likely have a handful of very large companies that provide the backbone of future AI tools. These large AI giants will be very good at machine learning and very good at digesting massive amounts of information. Then we will likely see silos of expertise established. These silos or niches will be dominated by small companies that operate within a niche industry that they know really well. Indeed, we are already seeing small companies developing specific tools that are much better for a specialized purpose because they understand what that specific industry of subset needs.

We go on to discuss fair use, particularly discussing the legal troubles facing Meta, and ethics around AI development and use, as well as the importance of prompts and how it is frustrating—to say the least—that AI companies do not seem interested in helping users learn how to get better at prompting AI tools to get better results.

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The Existential Threat of AI Consciousness

Season 2 · Episode 19

Monday, May 12, 2025 • Duration 37:04

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed we explore whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has progressed to the point where it has already achieved consciousness. In a nutshell, the answer is our panel of technologists do not believe AI is very close to achieving consciousness, but that it is indeed possible for AI to reach the point of consciousness, and to even reach the point of self-reflection, which would pose an existential threat to humans.

Our conversation this week is from a panel presentation titled “Artificial Intelligence Today: A Discussion of the Technical Landscape of AI.” I moderated this conversation, which was between Jason Alany Snyder, who is Chief AI Officer for Momentum Worldwide, Malek Ben Salem, an AI expert, technologist and consultant, Dustin Raney, who is Head of Industry Strategy for Acxiom, and Dina Blinksteyn, who is partner and co-chair of the AI Practice Group at Haynes Boone.

We begin by asking whether AI has become sentient, and if not when we can expect AI will become sentient, which is a question I’ve asked Jason Alan Snyder each of the previous two years we have hosted an AI specific conference at IPWatchdog Studios. Two years ago, he predicted AI would become sentient within 15 years. Last year he predicted AI would become sentient within 14 years. Predictably perhaps, he agreed with his previous predictions and this year said, “13 years is probably a good guess,” said Snyder.

As the conversation unfolded, we spoke about whether hallucinations continue to be a problem for AI, whether the Turning test remains relevant with respect to defining AI, and fundamental aspects of what it means to be human. And we wrap up at the point where Snyder and Ben Salem discuss how AI could become an existential threat to humanity.

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