Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Pablo Segarra, trademark attorney and founder of SideHustle.Law.Segarra discusses trademarks from the perspective of an attorney serving a client base of small and part-time businesses and side hustles. We talk about Segarra’s transition from NYPD officer to lawyer, going to law school in his thirties, misconceptions small business owners have about trademarks, how lawyers can structure their offerings for the small business market and more.“Most of the clients that I work with, they're just trying to get off the ground to actually create this business that they have,” Segarra says.“I definitely recommend that attorneys that want to work with this specific clientele offer flexible pricing models, flat fee services for specific services, maybe lower your monthly retainer or give a specific amount of hours for package deals. I do that often with ideas like a startup package which includes various documents and various templates for them. That's a lower cost when combined.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Julie Burke, Expert Witness on US Patent Practice and Procedures at IPQuality Pro.Burke, a former patent scientist and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) quality assurance specialist, special program examiner and patent examiner, focuses in our conversation on the USPTO’s updated DOCX filing requirements.We talk about Burke's paper on DOCX filing and rendering errors, DOCX filing requirements and the type of errors IP practitioners may encounter when filing DOCX patent applications in the US.“Even though all the text is there from the beginning to the end, applicants receive a notice of missing parts with no way to move forward,” Burke says.“This jams up prosecution for months to come, because it's taking on average 170 days for our sample of applications that have been petitioned for the Patent Office to respond. That's a very lengthy time to have your application stuck on hold in pre-exam with no way to move forward. The error itself is not one created by the applicant, but you have to file the petitions and pay the fees and wait and see if you can get it fixed.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Today, we are featuring a discussion with David Bellos and Alex Montagu about the history of copyright protection.Bellos is a professor at Princeton University with a distinguished background as a translator and biographer. Montagu is a founding Partner of MontaguLaw, P.C., a law firm that focuses primarily on intellectual property law, international commercial transactions and new media commercial and corporate law. The pair recently released a book, Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyright and Wrongs, which goes into great detail on the history of copyright and how it impacts our everyday lives.“From the beginning, copyright had this tendency to spread, creep, and crawl, and it extended in dribs and drabs from books to engravings to sheet music—sculptures, the visual arts and even textile designs like tea towels in the Calico Printers’ Act. It had a tendency from the start to get bigger and bigger. This started happening long before there was any new media or the internationalization of copyright and the extension of the rights that it conferred, like translation and adaptation. All this precedes the invention of anything that you might call ‘new media,’” Bellos says.Montagu adds, “In the 17th and 18th century, these issues were debated publicly. It was not an issue that was limited to a niche circle of lawyers and lobbyists behind the scenes, because issues that affected people were debated by philosophers–John Locke, Condorcet in France, people like that. Today, that's not what we're doing. This is very much a niche issue that, if debated at all, is debated in the context of the United States Copyright Office or the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. There are very few people involved. And we argue that this is actually touching everybody, so we want to open up the discussion.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management.Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Beth Toth, Principal Coach and Consultant at Consulo Consulting. Beth has a long history working in the human facing side of business; starting in HR, she’s moved through recruiting to consulting, and has a comprehensive perspective. She has advised organizations from startups to Fortune 500s, and individuals from entry-level employees to executives.Beth offers helpful insights on how to best manage difficult situations with clients and accomplish goals even when obstacles emerge. She describes how honesty, shared goals and an openness to others’ mindsets have allowed her to navigate relationships and help her clients move past sticking points.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Jonathan Masur about real world prior art.Masur, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, specializes in patent law, administrative law, behavioral law and economics and criminal law. In this conversation, we talk about whether an invention is or is not novel, litigation over these issues and more.“It’s an interesting subject to talk about because the rules for real world prior art in the physical universe are different from the rules for prior art on paper,” Masur says. “They are more complex in a lot of ways and the courts are still trying to work them out in a lot of ways that they are not when it comes to paper prior art.”___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Yayoi Shionoiri, Lawyer for the Chris Burden Estate and the Nancy Rubins Studio & Sarah Conley Odenkirk, Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP.In this interview, Odenkirk and Shionoiri discuss public art commissions and their overlap with intellectual property law, the public art development process, ways for artists and municipalities to work together and more.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Angela Dunning, partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP. In this interview, Dunning discusses her work in the Naruto v. Slater case, legal questions around authorship and artificial intelligence, class action lawsuits around training data for generative AI, her work on behalf of Midjourney, what the future holds for legal approaches around AI and more. We spoke with Angela in mid-2023 and conducted a follow-up interview in February 2024.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. This interview is part of our AccelPro Career Tools series, where we explore topics including wellness and client relationship management. Our host is internationally recognized journalist, author and NPR host Celeste Headlee. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Tushar Kumar, Financial Advisor at Twin Peaks Wealth Advisors. We discuss the challenge of surviving and thriving in the somewhat thankless industry of financial advising. Tushar offers strategies for gaining and preserving long-lasting client relationships, whether the market is up or down. We also speak about training employees and how a supportive, step-based approach can help your team successfully connect with clients and maintain their own wellbeing in a remote-work industry. One of the keys, Tushar maintains, to starting a successful firm in the days of AI and Google is to find a unique feature that clients are drawn to. Soft skills, and particularly good communication, are what will bring you business and make you irreplaceable.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation with Michael Snyder and Joseph Gushue, shareholders at Volpe Koenig.In this interview, Gushue and Snyder discuss key client misconceptions about intellectual property law, copyright and patents. Snyder and Gushue are cohosts of the IP Goes Pop! Podcast and focus on common misunderstandings about obtaining patents, self-copyright, fair use and more.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com

Welcome to AccelPro IP Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation on copyright transformative use with Professor Ann Bartow. Bartow is a professor whose work focuses on the intersection between intellectual property law and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law and feminist legal theory.In part one, Bartow discusses intellectual property law, copyright infringement, Campbell vs. Acuff Rose, Weird Al Yankovic and questions of parody vs. satire. In this second part of our interview, Bartow discusses parody precedent and the book The Wind Done Gone, Richard Price and appropriation artists and trademark law, possible consequences of the Andy Warhol Supreme Court case and more.___AccelPro’s interviews and products accelerate your professional development. Our mission is to improve your day-to-day job performance and make your career goals achievable.Send your comments and career questions to [email protected]. You can also call us at 614-642-2235.If your colleagues in any sector of the IP law field might be interested, please let them know about AccelPro. As our community grows, it grows more useful for its members. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iplawinsights.joinaccelpro.com