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What are the filing trends in India, Japan, Singapore and the United States? New technologies are evolving very quickly. How are patent offices training their examiners on new technologies? Sandy Chan at IP Counsel Cafe speaks with John Cabeca, U.S. IP Counselsor for South Asia, Will Cheng at LinkedIn, Miku Mehta at Procopio, Rena Sato at NEDO/Japan Patent Office, and Alfred Yip at

The Medical Device industry faces a host of different issues and considerations which impact their IP strategy. Sandy Chan of IP Counsel Cafe speaks with Derek Minihane, Vice President, R&D at Cochlear, a global leader in implantable hearing solutions, and Miku Mehta, Partner at Procopio law firm where he focus on Asia-Pacific Practice. They will discuss where Cochlear decides to

Over the past two years, we have witnessed an acceleration in business changes and shifting global markets. These factors require companies to reconsider their foreign filing strategies in order to best protect their company's intellectual property. Join us for a conversation with Micheal Binns, Associate General Counsel on the Patent, Licensing and Open Source Team at Meta; Miku M

"The Convergence of Engineering, Law & Business: A Conversation with Angela Murch" Angela Murch is Vice President of Law, IP, and Compliance at Rani Therapeutics, a company that has developed the RaniPill™, a platform technology that delivers biologics via a swallowed medical device to eliminate the need for patients to give themselves injections. The research and technology b

How does Japan fit into your global IP strategy? Miku Mehta, Partner at Procopio law firm, moderates this discussion with Nobuo Tanaka, a Japanese patent attorney and U.S. patent agent who is currently General Manager of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, and Yoshinari Oyama, a former patent examiner and administrative judge at the Japan Patent Office, and currently the Senior Director

How does India fit into your Global IP Strategy? Sandy Chan speaks with Srihari SK, Partner at Indian law firm, K&S Partners about the business landscape and recent developments in India's IP system.

How do startups decide between trade secret and patent protection? What does the analysis look like? Sandy Chan, Executive Director & General Counsel at IP Counsel Cafe speaks with Kevin Brown, Vice President of IP at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biotechnology company that combines experimental biology and automation with artificial intelligence to discover potential

Listen to Part 2 of Sandy Chan's conversation with Laura Gisler, Head of IP at Polestar; Olivia Tsai, Head of IP at Cruise; Bruce Wu, Head of IP at Nutcracker Therapeutics; and Miku Mehta, Partner at Procopio Law Firm. How do Heads of IP communicate value to their General Counsel and C-Suite? How can outside counsel help?

How do newly hired Heads of IP build their IP departments? What is the first day like? How do they work with their inventors, business teams, and outside counsel? Sandy Chan speaks with Laura Gisler, Head of IP at Polestar; Olivia Tsai, Head of IP at Cruise; Bruce Wu, Head of IP at Nutcracker Therapeutics; and Miku Mehta, Partner at Procopio law firm.

Data issues are similar to other IP issues: What data are you collecting? Who owns the data? What are your obligations with regard to that data? Are you able to monetize the data? Sandy Chan of IP Counsel Cafe speaks with Brett Alten, Chief IP Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lew Zaretzki of Hamilton IPV.