IP Innovators

🎙️ Real Stories. Evolving Practice. The Future of IP Law IP Innovators features in-depth conversations with leading patent practitioners about their career journeys and how technological advances—from automation to AI—are reshaping the way they practice law every day. Hosted by IP journalist Steve Brachmann , each episode offers candid insights from attorneys on the front lines of innovation, sharing how they adapt, grow, and lead in a rapidly changing IP landscape. 📌 IP Innovators is proudly sponsored by DeepIP – your trusted AI patent assistant.

IP Innovators is a business podcast hosted by DeepIP, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #11

  Good Enough Isn't Good Enough: Scott Kelly on AI and Patent Quality

  Jul 9, 202637 minS1

  <p>In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with <b>Scott Kelly, Founding Partner and Head of Practice at KellDann</b>, to explore what happens when a patent attorney decides that "good enough" AI-drafted patents aren't good enough. Drawing on nearly 17 years in the field, including three years as a USPTO examiner and 13 years at Banner Witcoff, Scott brings a practitioner's skepticism to the AI boom reshaping his industry.</p><p>Scott walks through the founding story of KellDann, a firm he built from scratch with longtime mentor Ross Dannenberg specifically to be AI-forward from day...

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  Episode #11

  Good Enough Isn't Good Enough: Scott Kelly on AI and Patent Quality

  Jul 9, 202637 minS1

  In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with Scott Kelly, Founding Partner and Head of Practice at KellDann , to explore what happens when a patent attorney decides that "good enough" AI-drafted patents aren't good enough. Drawing on nearly 17 years in the field, including three years as a USPTO examiner and 13 years at Banner Witcoff, Scott brings a practitioner's skepticism to the AI boom reshaping his industry. Scott walks through the founding story of KellDann, a firm he built from scratch with longtime mentor Ross Dannenberg specifically to be AI-forward from day one, and why that's proven more nimble than retrofitting AI onto an existing practice. But the real thread of the conversation is what he calls "AI slop": the flood of thin, LLM-generated patent applications he expects to flood the system, and why he thinks a lot of them will be vulnerable to abstract idea and written description attacks down the road. His AI approach is to spend the time up front, often over an hour on a single disclosure call, building the roadmap himself before handing anything to the AI to execute. 👨‍💼 About the Guest: Scott Kelly is founding partner and head of practice at KellDann, an AI-forward patent firm he co-founded alongside Ross Dannenberg. A former USPTO patent examiner and 13-year veteran of Banner Witcoff, Scott has been recognized as a top PTAB attorney by Managing Intellectual Property, with a specialty practice in video games and interactive entertainment law. 🔧 Sponsored by DeepIP — your patent intelligence platform, from idea to enforcement. 🛎️ Subscribe to hear more real stories, evolving practice, and the future of IP law.

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  Episode #10

  The Business-First IP Playbook: David Hyams on Mapping Value and the Limits of Generic AI

  May 26, 202639 minS1

  <p>In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with <b>David Hyams, Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer of Longship Legal</b>, to explore what happens when a patent attorney stops asking, "Is this patentable?" and starts asking "What is this business actually worth?" Drawing on a career that spans big law in Boston, in-house roles at Bose and AOL, and a CleanTech start-up, David brings an unusually holistic lens to IP: one that treats patents, trade secrets, contracts, and copyright not as separate disciplines, but as a matrix of legal tools in service of a...

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  Episode #9

  Closing the Gap: Emily Teesdale on IP Strategy, Collaboration, and the Fractional Model

  Apr 1, 202639 minS1

  <p>In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with <b>Emily Teesdale, Founder of Pivot IP</b>, to explore what fractional IP leadership actually looks like, and why smaller engineering companies are leaving serious value on the table without it. Drawing on more than 20 years in the field, including senior in-house roles at Airbus and GKN Aerospace, Emily makes a compelling case that IP strategy and patent prosecution are not the same thing, and that confusing the two can cost companies far more than they realize.</p><p>She walks through the real risks hiding inside...

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  Episode #8

  Writer’s Block Is Dead: Drew McElligott on AI in Legal Practice

  Mar 5, 202642 minS1

  <p>In this episode of IP Innovators, host Steve Brachmann sits down with <b>Drew McElligott, Counsel at Crowell & Moring</b>, to explore what AI actually looks like inside a modern law firm—and why, as McElligott puts it, “writer’s block is pretty much dead.” From litigation and Hatch-Waxman strategy to medical device innovation and firmwide AI rollouts, Drew shares a grounded, practical view of how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal work without replacing legal judgment.</p><p>He reflects on AI as a drafting partner—one that turns lawyers into editors rather than first-drafters—while also digging into the realitie...

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