To open the season, host Eli Mazour brings together three journalists who cover intellectual property for a living: Olivia Rafferty of IP Fray, Nisha Shetty of IAM, and Inbar Preiss of MLex.
They discuss what happens when patent litigation concentrates in a few courts, from Germany's dominance at the Unified Patent Court to the rise and fall of Judge Alan Albright in Texas. They also cover consolidation in the video codec patent pool market, Europe's fight over AI and copyright (including cases involving OpenAI, Suno, and Google's Gemini), why mainstream media struggles to cover IP, and what each journalist is watching next.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction & meet the panel
00:56 How each journalist got into covering IP
07:42 The SEP regulation's rise, withdrawal, and EU court challenge
11:53 US patent policy shifting with each administration
13:40 Why most UPC cases are filed in Germany
17:08 The Judge Albright controversy
20:03 The EU's standardization regulation review
23:50 Patent pools consolidate: the Via and Access Advance merger
26:58 AI collides with copyright law
30:26 Why mainstream media struggles to cover IP
37:40 What's on the radar for next year
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