Cipher Vision: Recent Episodes

Nigel Swycher and Francesca Levoir

This is a channel that has been created to promote the discussion on unleashing the strategic value of patents and Intellectual Property. This podcast series aims to create thought provoking conversation with the industry leaders and qualified professionals in the IP, R&D, Legal and Innovation departments. Our aim is to enlighten our listeners on how disruptive technologies are redefining the competitive landscape and the way machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the IP world. Continue the conversation on our social channels using #CipherVision

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Marco Richter, Global Head of Customer Success at LexisNexis Intellectual Property highlights the important role that patents play in helping us to become more sustainable, discussing the benefit of measuring innovation in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Highlights from our chat included:

  • An overview of how the UN SDGs can be translated into patent data
  • The need to utilise transparent and measurable data to record sustainability outcomes
  • Insight into the increased market demand for sustainable patents
  • The role of consumers in driving sustainable innovation across business

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In Episode 6 of the Cipher Vision Podcast series, we are joined by Lorie Goins, Head of IP Strategy at Kyndryl. She shares with us how to approach innovation, by adopting a questioning, inclusive and analytical mindset, drawing on tools to form evidence-based decisions that enhance your IP strategy.

Highlights from our chat included:

  • The importance of aligning your business and IP strategy to deliver value
  • The need to expand the definition of innovation
  • Insight into how analytics inform evidence-based decision making
  • An overview of how Kyndyl is fostering diverse inventors

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Jay Yonamine, Product Manager of GEO at Google, joined us to discuss his perspective on patent value and what the future could look like, given the possibilities and limitations of ML and AI.

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We are joined by Mike Binns and Braxton Davis, both Associate General Councel at Meta, who shared with us their experience pioneering DEI in the workplace and the current initiatives that they are working on, including ADAPT and The NCPP.

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We are joined by Julian Moore, Managing Director, Technology Corporate Finance at Houlihan Lokey, sharing his experience of investing in the IP analytics field.

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We welcome Lew Zaretski, Managing Director of Hamilton IPV, and renowned industry leading IP strategist, to share with us his thoughts and experiences with SEPs.

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Ken Seddon, CEO of LOT Network, joins us to discuss the PAE (Patent Assertion Entity) patent risk; how it has grown and what the future holds.

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We welcome Joff Wild, Editor at Large, IAM and World Trade Mark Review, with over 30 years IP Journalism experience, Joff tells us the key themes and challenges for IP going forward

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Welcoming Peter Haigh, Chairman of Mintel, the leading market research company, where we explore rising consumer trends and where combining market intelligence data with patent data can give a unique insight into how companies are responding to consumer needs.

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Joined by Managing Director of Patinformatics and expert on Patent Analytics, this episode explores the clear benefits of using Machine Learning tools to generate insights and patent intelligence.

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Joined by Chief Technology Officer at TechInsights who explores using patents as an informative resource to determine macro trends within the Semiconductor industry.

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The first episode of season 2 features Chief IP Counsel at Ocado, Lucy Wojcik. She speaks of her journey in building a strong IP capability where clear communication sits at its core.

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This episode features the Chairman of Cipher, Stephen Halliday, and Chairman of UK Investment Banking, and Global Co-Head of Consumer at Deutsche Bank, Scott Bell. They highlight the importance of investing in the future of technology.

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This episode features Dr. Baruch Lev the author of the bestseller book, The end of accounting, and a former professor at NYU. The key theme of this podcast is strategic assets and intangibles. Summer of 2020, Forbes magazine, listed his book as a must-read for CFOs.

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This episode features David Kappos, Partner Cravath, and former director USPTO. The IP system in general, the patent system particularly has become more important and the subject of concern, criticism, but also extreme economic and strategic value. IP sits at the heart of the global superstructure that’s driving the innovation and digital economy. Yet its development into a functional asset class is hampered by the basics, lack of IP transparency.

Pride in Patent Ownership Act The new legislation is trying to do, is to let the world know, who owns a patent by making a patent owner record their ownership. I will continue to encourage here in the US this legislation to proceed, and then the USPTO to find mid-lane approaches to implementing, and then hopefully we can take this global. This legislation and Oropo on a global level become a catalyst could be really powerful and really positive.

Global trade and Challenges in IP transparency Governments in many countries have taken more of an interest. But I think now we're at a kind of a turning point. And in Europe, starting right there in the UK, I think we can make this into a kind of a global wave in a positive way.

Future of transparency in the Intellectual Property world With the pandemic that we’re still dealing with, I fear that we’ll continue to have a lot of pressure brought to bear on intellectual property in general, and accusations of it, impeding or thwarting innovation. I hope others take the IP discussion to a different level to a much more understandable consumer on the street kind of level.

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A positive force for negative right. Patents are an unusual property. The ownership of a patent does not permit the owner to do anything except stop someone else from using the patented invention. And so by its very nature, it's  a negative and confrontational, right. Most people and companies who infringe intellectual property rights or patent rights, they're completely unaware that they are infringing the right of someone else.

NPE and Patent Risk RPX was born in 2008, around the NPE risk problem. Historically, there was as much litigation, maybe more litigation per capita in America in the 1860s to 1880s, as there has been during the sort of peak of the modern NPE era. So patent owners, regardless of whether they're operating companies, or non practicing entities are not a new phenomenon.

Cipher Vision Podcast - Key Takeaway We are in the middle of dispute after dispute, that seems to be never ending, we just really have a hard time stepping back to see the big picture. My prediction is there will not be any dramatic shifts with respect to at least patent related Policy. Many of the things that we have envisioned we're going to heal the world from NPE's or do great damage to patent implementers or somehow damage inevitably the rights of patent owners almost none of those ever turn out to be true. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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The importance of an IP mindset forces you to 'start with why' and seek to understand how IP can be leveraged to achieve corporate goals. This podcast episode features Bowman Heiden Co-Director CIP and visiting professor at Berkley. An IP mindset encourages clear communication with different people of different disciplines, it means you see the broader picture and the value IP can bring to the business. The IP mindset removes any silos through an interdisciplinary education and integrates IP assets with the rest of the business.

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This episode features Suzanne Harrison IP strategy expert and author of the books Einstein in the board room and Edison in the Boardroom. She talks about the rise of IP strategy in the last two decades.

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This episode features the renowned British economist and author Jonathan Haskel. He talks about the shift from tangible to intangible assets and how the economy has evolved over the last 20 years. The pandemic is sort of a kick to the intangible assets programme and the vaccine itself is an incredible intangible asset.

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The third episode of Cipher Vision podcast, features Jonathan Liu Associate General Counsel from Facebook. This episode talks about calculating return on investment data for patents. This episode is based on an exclusive report about return on investment which is co-authored by leaders from Facebook and Cipher.

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In this episode we will be talking about storytelling with data which is relevant to the patents and intellectual property industry.

We are joined by 2 industry experts and the host of Cipher Vision podcast Jared Engstrom from Crowdstrike Daryl Bradley from Arm Nigel Swycher from Cipher, host Francesca Levoir from Cipher, co-host

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The Cipher Vision podcast series will empower you to use data for your story telling. There are certain things that humans are not meant to do, counting and sorting 1000s of patents manually is one of them. Are you interested in understanding how machine learning, artificial intelligence and data can support your strategic patent decisions? Cipher, a disruptive technology is changing the Intellectual property industry for good, join us in this journey. Follow us on Spotify and ask us questions on social using the #CipherVision.