EPISODE 20: Foreign Filing Trends in India, Japan, Singapore and the United States

JOHN CABECA
IP Counselor for South Asia
U.S. Dept of Commerce

REINA SATO
Senior Director
NEDO Silicon Valley Office

ALFRED YIP
Director
IP Office of Singapore

WILL CHENG
Senior Patent Counsel
LinkedIn

MIKU MEHTA
Partner
Procopio

What filing trends are we seeing 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 Counselor for South Asia, Will Cheng at LinkedIn, Miku Mehta at Procopio, Reina Sato at NEDO/Japan Patent Office, and Alfred Yip at the IP Office of Singapore.  

October 11, 2023
Length: 57:50

EPISODE 19: IP Strategy for the Medical Device Industry

MIKU MEHTA
Partner
Procopio

DEREK MINIHANE
Vice President, R&D
Cochlear

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 file for IP protection and why, how business and IP protection have evolved over the past three years, and much more.  

April 28, 2023
Length: 38:42

EPISODE 18: Singapore IP Strategy

MICHAEL BINNS
Associate General Counsel, Patent, Licensing & Open Source
Meta

MIKU MEHTA
Partner
Procopio

ALFRED YIP
Director of Patent Search, Examination and Analytics
IPOS International

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 at Meta; Miku Mehta at Procopio law firm; and Alfred Yip at IPOS International.

April 18, 2022
Length: 33:00

EPISODE 17: The Convergence of Engineering, Law, and Business: A Conversation with Angela Murch

Angela Murch
Rani Therapeutics

How do engineering, law and business converge? Sandy Chan of IP Counsel Cafe speaks with Angela Murch, Vice President of Law, IP, and Compliance at Rani Therapeutics. Rani Therapeutics 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.  Angela was previously Vice President of IP at InCube Labs, a company that creates and develops medical device concepts, forming startups to commercialize the concepts. The research and technology behind Rani Therapeutics came out of InCube Labs,

Prior to InCube, Angela was an IP attorney at Foley & Lardner LLP and earlier at Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC, specializing in patent prosecution and patent litigation. Before venturing into a legal career, Angela was an engineer for fifteen years, specializing in electronic control systems for automotive applications and for the solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle.

Angela holds a BSEE from Michigan State University, an MSEE from University of Michigan, and a JD from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is admitted to the California bar and is registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

December 2, 2021
Length: 36:57

EPISODE 16: Japan in Your Global IP Strategy

Miku Mehta
Procopio Law Firm

Yoshinari Oyama
NEDO Silicon Valley Office

Nobuo Tanaka
Yokogawa Electric Corporation

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 of the NEDO Silicon Valley Office.

June 24, 2021
Length: 49:50

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