IP Protection Matters

IP Protection Matters is a podcast interview series examining notable issues related to the protection of and threats to intellectual property. IP Protection Matters is a project of the Center for Individual Freedom.

IP Protection Matters is a news podcast hosted by Center For Individual Freedom, with 35 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.

Center For Individual Freedom hosts IP Protection Matters, a news show with 35 episodes published.

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  American Innovator Award Winner Discusses the Bayh-Dole Act and the Importance of Strong IP Protections

  Aug 6, 202631 min

  Dr. Colleen Scott, a 2026 winner of the Bayh-Dole Coalition’s American Innovator Award, chemist and Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, who discovered a new class of shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging dyes that have potential to allow surgeons to visualize tumors with greater depth and clarity in real time, discusses the economic significance of the Bayh-Dole Act and importance of strong IP protections in bringing new innovations to market.

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  IP Rights and Technology Transfer

  Jun 2, 202626 minS0

  Stephen Susalka, Chief Executive Officer of AUTM, discusses how university technology transfer powers the innovation economy – creating jobs, saving and enhancing lives, and improving productivity – the Bayh-Dole Act, which has enabled tremendous progress in innovation, and the importance of strong and predictable intellectual property protections.

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  Weak IP Terminology and the Need to Restore Patent Infringement Injunctions

  May 11, 202623 minS0

  Kristen Jakobsen Osenga, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law, discusses patent eligibility and preliminary injunctions in patent litigation, how strong intellectual property protections drive innovation, and some of the terminology (i.e., “evergreening” and “patent thickets”) often used by advocates for weaker intellectual property protections.

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  IP Protections Essential to the Free Market and Startup Economy

  Apr 8, 202618 minS0

  Mark Schultz, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Chair in Intellectual Property and Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program at the University of Akron School of Law, discusses how strong intellectual property (IP) protections are essential to the free market and modern economy, and the need to return to a more effective and predictable IP system in the U.S.

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  Strong IP Protections Are Critical to Ensuring Continued U.S. Innovation Leadership

  Mar 17, 202621 minS0

  David Kappos, Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and former Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, discusses how strong intellectual property (IP) protections are essential for the U.S. to continue to lead the world in innovation, the importance of IP protections to attract capital necessary to innovate, and the need for Congress to act to fix issues dealing with injunctive relief for patent infringement, patent eligibility, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

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