New Clause 8 Episode: Josh Landau – On Lobbying for Weaker Patent Rights and ‘Making a PB&J Sandwich’
Eli Mazour‘s Clause 8 Podcast, The Voice of IP, has returned for Season 2, featuring all new exclusive interviews with the intellectual property community’s biggest names.
The first episode of this season of Clause 8 featured the most recent USPTO Director – Andrei Iancu – discussing his efforts to strengthen America’s patent system over the last three years. One of the most publicly vocal opponents of those efforts was Josh Landau, patent counsel at the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). Now that those views are in ascendancy in the Biden administration and Congress, it made sense to finish this season by talking to Josh.
This is an incredibly insightful episode exploring first hand how the patent process helps innovative individuals and small companies bring their ideas to fruition. Listen here!
On today’s podcast:
- The role of the CCIA in the patent debate
- The failure of Section 101 legislation in the last Congress
- The “patent quality” problem
- How the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) operates
- Patent policy advocacy on Capitol Hill
- Patent policy in Trump v Biden administration
- Is the patent system unfair to patent owners in any way?
- Why do different patent attorneys have such different views of the patent system?
- US inventors
- The “peanut butter and jelly sandwich” patent
You can subscribe and listen to the full episode on your favorite podcasting app and learn more at voiceofIP.com. All Season 2 episodes are available now!
