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Understanding IP Matters

The Center For Intellectual Property Understanding

‘Understanding IP Matters,’ is a popular podcast series that enables successful entrepreneurs, inventors, content creators, executives and experts to share their IP story - the good, bad and amazing. The series is brought to you by the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding, an independent non-profit established in 2016. CIPU provides outreach to improve IP awareness, enhance value and promote sharing. www.understandingip.org

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47:06

Capital Can Transform Invention Rights

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2026/01/14

Send us a text Why do many businesses prefer lawsuits over licensing deals — and what does IP capital mean for innovation? Phil Hartstein, co-founder of Soryn IP Capital and former CEO of Finjan Holdings, shares insights from orchestrating almost $500 million in licensing deals. He explains why patent licensing has shifted from corporate boardrooms to courtrooms, and discusses the economics of patent enforcement, the role of litigation finance in supporting legitimate innovators, and how AI i...

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45:03

3-D Chess: AI's Race for Market Share and IP Supremacy

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2025/12/10

Send us a text Allison Gaul, senior counsel at BCG-X, an invention development and commercialization company, discusses the evolving AI landscape, where intellectual awareness meets real-world strategy. As both a former patent examiner and litigator with a Harvard graduate degree in business analytics, she offers insider perspectives on how companies secure IP rights, why investors now prioritize AI risk policies, and how open source licensing drives market adoption. The conversation expl...

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42:43

Man of 1000 Faces: The Renaissance Journey of Eric Bear

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2025/11/19

Send us a text When creativity meets intellectual property, innovation has no boundaries. Eric Bear has licensed intellectual property to all major U.S. studios and Fortune 500 companies while maintaining a successful acting career. With over 100 patents covering software and video technology, Eric's seamless expansion invention was popularized by The Matrix and licensed to Disney, Fox, and other major studios. This conversation explores how he balances roles as inventor, entrepreneur, actor,...

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40:07

Copyright Piracy Costs America up to $71 Billion:...

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2025/11/05

Send us a text Ruth Vitale, Oscar-winning producer and CEO of Creative Future, reveals the devastating impact of copyright piracy on America's entertainment workforce. Piracy costs the economy up to $71 billion annually and threatens 560,000 jobs across film and television. Ruth explains how small business IP protection matters for the 122,000 companies serving Hollywood, why copyright law basics must evolve for the digital age, and what IP protection strategies could save the industry. From ...

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47:00

AI Adoption Moves At The Speed of Trust

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2025/10/22

Send us a text Award-winning educator and IP advocate Daryl Lim joins Bruce Berman to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and intellectual property education. Broadcasting from Singapore, Daryl shares his global perspective on how AI is reshaping IP frameworks, from the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement to the emergence of new data rights. This conversation examines IP leadership challenges, the role of blockchain in patent processes, and why marginalized communities need bett...

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42:01

Patents don't block innovation, ignorance does

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2025/10/08

Send us a text Join host Bruce Berman for an illuminating conversation with Henry Hadad, Head of Intellectual Property Rights at Bristol-Myers Squibb. This episode explores how intellectual property education and strong patent protection drive medical breakthroughs while addressing common misconceptions about IP rights. Hadad shares his unique journey from a creative family background—his uncle wrote disco classics like "It's Raining Men"—to becoming a leading voice in pharmaceutical pa...

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42:22

Celebrated MIT engineer and entrepreneur develops...

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2025/07/16

Send us a text Michael Cima is a researcher, inventor and entrepreneur who has spent 40-years creating advanced medical devices that focus on diagnostics and treatments for cancer, metabolic diseases and trauma. He is also devoted educator mentoring the next generation of creators about the broad benefits of IP rights.

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39:20

This Fashionista Doesn't Wear Fashion - She Covers It

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2025/06/04

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41:03

When IP rights lose their property-like function...

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2025/04/09

Send us a text Author Jonathan Barnett argues that tilting the IP playing field to the benefit of the biggest companies is a much greater threat to innovation, business and democracy than we are willing to admit.

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35:28

AI needs the right balance of innovation and...

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2025/03/19

Send us a text Brandie Nonnecke heads the CITRIS Policy Lab, a tech research center at UC Berkeley that focuses on IT and deep tech and explores topical issues, including personal data privacy, digital access equity, AI bias, and the influence of social media on democracy.

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46:15

"Emmy Award-winning immunologist is re-making the...

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2025/02/26

Send us a text Dr. Bertley is a nine-time Emmy Award winning educator who believes that inventions and creative expression are for everyone, from school age children to leading research institutions. Science, technology, engineering, arts, math (STEAM) are his passion. As CEO of the leading U.S. science museum, Center for Science & Indusry (COSI), he is living it.

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35:10

"Too much AI regulation threatens competition and...

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2025/02/05

Send us a text Arguably the most successful USPTO Director, Andrei Iancu, worries that fear of an AI apocalyps are over blown and that too much regulation could be a bigger threat to the U.S.'s ability to compete than too little

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37:02

"Unreliable U.S. tech patents impede breakthough...

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2025/01/15

Send us a textA leading patent market expert explains how the ennactment of bi-partisan IP legislation before Congress can help inventions to become more meaningful.

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36:26

Ex-war photographer helps remove the mystery from...

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2024/12/11

Send us a textAdobe, NYT and Twitter-lead initiative uses open source software to track image origination and changes to spot fakes and prevent abuse.

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47:02

Policy won't save U.S. innovation; respect for...

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2024/11/20

Send us a textIP's leading historian and policy expert says the U.S. is undermining the model innovation rights system that it layed the foundation for in the U.S. Constitution.

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37:36

Singer-songwriter says AI could turn content...

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2024/11/04

Send us a textBoundary-breaking indie songwriter and cultural critic, Elizabeth Nelson, says streaming and AI threaten working musicians and hurt listeners, too.

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42:30

How a 'Shark Tank' winner overcame obstacles

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2024/10/23

Bullies couldn't stop Akeem, nor clinical depression. He gets his strength from connecting with people. Snoop Dogg called him a marketing genius.

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39:43

NYC's #1 inventor shares his secret for working smarter

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2024/10/09

James started out as a math whiz, who loved games and calculating risk. That led him to problem-solving and 780 U.S. patents.

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35:56

How AI + IP are making an impact on early cancer...

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2024/05/08

"Once the 'human' education of an AI-driven device is completed, the machine will learn on its own," says Dr. Alan C. Nelson, cancer diagnostics developer with 142 patents and 30 years AI experience. "It becomes way smarter and quicker-thinking than the teacher."

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Create, invent, track: Managing digital rights for IP...

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2024/03/20

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