HIPerspectives HIPLegal LLP

In this episode of HIPerspectives, Glassbreakers CEO and co-founder, Eileen Carey, talks about solving the diversity problem, the highs and lows of startup life, building culture from scratch, and how music helps her “crush it.”

 

Welcome to HIPerspectives!

In this episode, Theresa Kushner, VP, Information Innovation Center at VMWare, shares her journey from the emerging days of big data … to writing a couple books … to her path to the best job ever.  Talk about working joy! She invites you to share your stories about data by reaching out to her at tkushner@vmware.com. And she shares some of what makes the culture at VMWare so special. Listen in and be inspired.

 

 

Monitoring the competition is an important part of protecting your intellectual property – in some cases, for example, to maintain your trademarks, you need to ensure others are not misusing your IP. Keeping an eye on what your competitors are doing (in a legally-proper way) also helps maintain the competitive advantage you derive from your intellectual property – which really should be the purpose for protecting your IP in the first place. When a competitor launches a product that looks very similar to your technology, and you realize they recently hired engineers who worked on your technology, what do you do? Do you have patents or trade secrets that prevent them from selling their new product? Even if you do, should you act? Are there pitfalls to be aware of? These are just some considerations covered by the HIPLegal partners in this episode, discussing what to do when a competitor appears to be infringing your IP rights.

In this episode of HIPerspectives, our awesome guest Dawnet Beverley will take you on a journey to discover the secrets to confidence and vulnerability and how both facets fit into leadership.  The key that ties them together?  Your truth. Listen in to understand what that means and how to find your truth.  Dawnet also shares her insights about mentoring and reveals an important connection between golf and leadership.

In earlier IP Basics episodes, the HIPLegal partners discussed how IP rights – like patents, copyrights, trademarks – come into existence and when you might need permission to use someone else’s IP rights. This episode builds on those prior episodes to explore strategies for the licensee – the one who wants rights to someone else’s intellectual property – when negotiating for a license. We return to the example of Annie’s pencil and walk through what rights we need to fill a customer order.

Our first guest of 2016 is an awesome young woman – Sanika Mahajan.  Sanika is a high school student who joined HIPLegal as a summer intern in 2015.  Take a short trip down memory lane as you listen to Sanika’s experience in high school. You’ll hear her take on the conversation around girls/women in STEM and be reminded of just how tough the demands of high school (and all those extracurricular activities) can be.  As we focus this year on the election of our next leader, it is reassuring to know that we have young people like Sanika in the pipeline for future leadership in our country!



 

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