How Patent Litigation Really Moves: IAM, IP Fray, and MLex Reporters on the Year in IP

To open the season, host Eli Mazour brings together three journalists who cover intellectual property for a living: Olivia Rafferty of IP Fray, Nisha Shetty of IAM, and Inbar Preiss of MLex.

They discuss what happens when patent litigation concentrates in a few courts, from Germany's dominance at the Unified Patent Court to the rise and fall of Judge Alan Albright in Texas. They also cover consolidation in the video codec patent pool market, Europe's fight over AI and copyright (including cases involving OpenAI, Suno, and Google's Gemini), why mainstream media struggles to cover IP, and what each journalist is watching next.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction & meet the panel

00:56 How each journalist got into covering IP

07:42 The SEP regulation's rise, withdrawal, and EU court challenge

11:53 US patent policy shifting with each administration

13:40 Why most UPC cases are filed in Germany

17:08 The Judge Albright controversy