This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Jeremiah Chan, the Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Patents, Licensing and Open Source at Meta. Jeremiah and his team are responsible for Meta’s worldwide patent portfolio, intellectual property transactions, and open-source software, as well as industry-wide efforts to promote great…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Timothy M. Hsieh, Ph.D., Founding Partner of MH2 Technology Law Group LLP, a law firm focused on helping companies protect their innovations with U.S. and foreign patents. During his twenty-five years as patent attorney, Tim has acquired hundreds of patents for companies ranging from Fortune 500® t…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Lisa Sun, CEO of GRAVITAS a company on a mission to catalyze confidence. Lisa has often been called the “dress whisperer.” Her company, GRAVITAS, offers innovative size-inclusive apparel, styling solutions, and content designed to make women from the inside out. Before founding GRAVITAS, Sun spent …

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Amanda Do Couto (Duh-Koo-Toe), Lead Patent Counsel at Meta. As Lead Patent Counsel, Amanda is responsible for the global patent strategy for various products and tech areas, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, and virtual reality products and research. After getting her Chemistry and law degree…

In this special, on-location episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat featuring Sakina Isgandarova, we met at ROMAN in Reston Town Center. ROMAN is a manifestation of Turkey’s women fashion industry leader’s expansion efforts to global markets. With a remarkable 12-year tenure in the fashion industry, Sakina effortlessly navigates the diverse style nee…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat on ADAPT features guest interviewer Nicole Cohen, VPG's Litigation Assistant (also known as Nico the tree frog in the VPG ecosystem.) Nicole chats with Gail Su, Senior Counsel on the Patent Transactions Team at Google. Ms. Su is an intellectual property attorney and United States registered patent attorney …

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Dr. Samantha Rae Dickenson, also known as “Dr. Sam”. Dr. Sam is the leading DEI Strategist and CEO of DSRD Consulting. She's also the creator of the innovative app, DEI Offload™, designed specifically to support the mental health of individuals working in the DEI sector, and her program, DEI Bluepr…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Administrative Patent Judge LiLan Ren. Judge Ren, or LiLan, received her undergraduate and master's degree in chemical engineering; attended the University of Houston Law Center as a night student while working as an engineer for a major petroleum company. After graduation, she spent a year in priv…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Meredith Schoenfeld, Associate Solicitor, Solicitor’s Office, USPTO. Meredith is an Associate Solicitor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), where she serves as legal counsel on intellectual property law matters. At the USPTO, Ms. Schoenfeld defends decisions by the Patent Tria…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Jessica Nguyen, Chief Legal Officer of Lexion, the AI-powered legal intake and contract lifecycle management system – helping attorneys manage tasks and contracts in one place. Jessica plays an integral role in managing Lexion’s legal function and product and go-to-market strategy while also buildi…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Micheal Binns, Head of Patent Portfolio Strategy for Meta’s Patents & Trade Secrets. Micheal chairs Meta’s Black@Legal affinity group, which focuses on ensuring an equitable experience for diverse employees in the legal department. He is also a founder and board member of ADAPT, a DEI collective, t…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat on ‘Honor Your Light’ features Kavita Battula, Senior Associate at Medler Fero Woodhouse and Mills PLLC. Kavita is a biotech patent attorney who has 20+ years of experience in top law firms and in-house. A certified Pilates, yoga, and cycle instructor, she is also an integrative nutrition coach, and is dedi…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features ‘Iolani L. Bullock, Vice President of DEI at The Carlyle Group. ‘Iolani is a dedicated advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). She holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and graduated Magna Cum Laude from New York Univ…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Lisa Gable. Lisa Gable is a former US Ambassador to the World Expo to obtain billions of direct foreign investments in the US, to help build Intl’s brand management system as the company ultimately achieves a 73% share of the global semiconductor market. Lisa is CEO, UN delegate, and Wall Street Jo…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Angela Evans, Founder of Waters of Hope. Angela has over twenty years of experience as an educator and initially met Ashley Cheung through an online Airbnb experience. She has since explored various creative writing and publishing projects with her and, most recently, worked with Ashley and Michell…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features VPG’s Junior Learning Engineer, Sydney Ricks, chatting with Dr. Coreena Brinck, Head of IP at IntuiCell, a Swedish Artificial General Intelligence start-up and founder of TheBrinckConsultancy, her Nordic/UK consultancy for strategy and CXO-level IP issues. Sydney is a Senior majoring in Statistics …

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Natasha “Tash” Craig Durkins. Tash is a senior executive in the federal government and has served in several key leadership positions throughout her civil service career. She is also the celebrated author of a recently published book, Fiercely Joyful: 11 Keys to Living Authentically & Creating a Li…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Mishele Kieffer, IP Counsel at Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology. Mishele specializes in patent conflict resolution, working on projects like freedom to operate analyses, due diligence issues, and patent litigation. Before joining Medtronic, Mishele was in private practice, specializ…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features VPG’s Generation Innovation summer Litigation Assistant Kiana Soleiman interviewing Deepa Tharmaraj, Head of Legal at ECARX. Deepa has 25+ years of commercial and corporate law experience in tech, in various capacities and countries, in FTSE 100, Fortune 500, and now a Nasdaq-listed company. Her ca…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Flor Da Valle. Flor is a contemporary art curator, professional photographer, artist & fashion designer from Buenos Aires. She has been an entrepreneur for more than ten years in the Arts and Fashion Industry and hosts Online Art Experiences for team-building events for companies around the world l…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Grace Wang, an attorney at Allen & Overy LLP’s New York office. Grace relies on her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT and patent prosecution background to advise her clients in inter partes review proceedings and requests for ex parte reexaminations. Her practice also focuses on litigation i…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Judy He, a patent attorney at Crowell & Moring LLP. Judy has a significant amount of experience with litigating and resolving complex patent, trade secret, and commercial licensing disputes. She is on the board of the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago (IPLAC) and teaches legal writin…

Disclaimer: The views expressed, opinions and stories that have been contributed to this podcast episode are those of Dahlia George and Virtual Patent Gateway. They do not belong to and cannot be credited to anyone at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or the Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED). This episode of Virtual Wate…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Naseema Shafi (She/Her), CEO of Whitman-Walker Health on the topic of Advancing Health Equality. Naseema lives in the DMV area and initially joined Whitman-Walker in 2007. In her role as CEO, Naseema works to implement the strategic vision, goals and initiatives of the Board of Directors. She leads…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Li Guo, Counsel at Bunsow De Mory LLP, and is interviewed by our special guest and mentor, Sheena Yap Chan, Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author of The Tao of Self-Confidence and Asian Women Who Boss Up, and podcast host of The Tao of Self-Confidence. As Counsel at Bunsow De Mory LLP, Li’s pract…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Bree Vculek, Patent Scientist at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and a recent graduate at The George Washington University Law School, located in Washington, D.C. Bree specializes in patent prosecution across a variety of technical disciplines, including artificial intelligence, biotechnology (agricultur…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Tara Kim Eberhart. Tara is a Senior Director, Practice Management at Dentons US LLP, President of the International Practice Management Association (IPMA), and a Founding Member of Chief.  She is proud to be a recovering Paralegal, having started off her legal career “doing real work” (as she says)…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Shawnna Hoffman President of Guardrail Technologies, a leading tech company focused on Enabling Responsible Technology, on Trailblazing Ethical AI. Previously, Shawnna served as the Chief Technology Leader, Legal Strategy & Operations of Dell Technologies. Prior to Dell Technologies, she was the Se…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Brendy Belony, a Paralegal Supervisor & Training Coordinator at Perkins Coie LLP in Washington, DC. With over 20 years of experience, Brendy is a people manager who supervises, mentors, and trains patent prosecution paralegals and paralegal assistants. She is passionate about the empowerment and de…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Sara Cooksey, Supervising Paralegal at the ACLU of Northern California. In her role with the ACLU, Sara provides oversight, training, and mentorship to the legal professional team and operational support for the Legal-Policy Department. Additionally, she supports active litigation in the Criminal J…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Samhitha Medatia, Senior Intellectual Property Counsel for Fidelity Information Services in Atlanta, Georgia and is hosted by Sheena Yap Chan, Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author of The Tao of Self-Confidence and Asian Women Who Boss Up, and podcast host of The Tao of Self-Confidence. Samhitha'…

Today’s episode features patent attorney Kara Specht on the topic of 'Mentoring the Next Generation of Leaders.' Kara focuses on patent litigation before district courts and before the International Trade Commission (ITC). Her practice covers a wide range of electronic and electrical technology areas related to computers, consumer electronics, and …

This episode features Alyssa Holtslander, Trademark Managing Counsel and Senior Patent Counsel at Unified Patents, LLC, on her path to becoming a patent attorney. Alyssa handles PTAB filings and ex parte reexamination within Unified, and she is also primarily responsible for Unified Brands, a service within Unified Patents that help deter counterfe…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Jennifer H. Wu, founding partner at Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP, which she founded after seven years as a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. She is a patent trial and appellate lawyer recognized for her “great advocacy skills at trials” and “outstanding work in cutti…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Lisa Nguyen, Partner at Allen & Overy, LLP. Lisa represents cutting-edge technology companies in intellectual property matters, particularly in litigation against non-practicing entities. Lisa is adept at resolving disputes efficiently and identifying pragmatic solutions for her clients. Her practi…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Kakoli Caprihan, an Associate Solicitor in the Office of the Solicitor at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), on her path to becoming a patent attorney. In her role, Kakoli defends decisions of the USPTO in cases before the district courts and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. K…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Ivy Clarice Estoesta on her path to becoming a director in Sterne Kessler’s Mechanical & Design Practice Group and Trademark & Brand Protection Practice. Ivy counsels a wide range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including consumer electronics, apparel, hous…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Xiaowen (Nancy) Song Partner as Linda Liu & partners, on "East and West Experience is the Best.” Nancy is a Partner at Linda Liu & Partners Beijing office. Her practice focuses on strategic patent procurement, and she has extensive experience in patent prosecution before the China National Intellec…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Micah Chi, Director, International Marketing for Charles Schwab, a financial services company. Prior to Schwab, Micah held marketing roles in education technology, telecommunications and defense systems where she led cross-channel growth marketing initiatives across paid media, social media, email,…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Dr. Mandy Song on the topic of “Overcoming Triple Challenges.” Dr. Song is a Founding and Managing Partner of Bayes, PLLC in McLean, VA, and brings more than a decade’s experience in patent practice, including patent prosecution, client counseling, patent portfolio management and transactions, pate…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Jessica Kaiser on her path to becoming a patent attorney. Jessica graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a degree in metallurgical and materials engineering. She worked as an engineer for 5 years, primarily in the oil and gas industry, before going to law school. After law school, Jessica…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Khue Hoang, Co-Managing Partner of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP. Khue has a very impressive professional background. She is the Co-Managing Partner of Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP’s New York office and has over 20 years of experience representing clients in high-stakes paten…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Deepa Purushothaman on the topic of “Reinventing Power in Corporate America.” An Executive Fellow at Harvard Business school, Deepa is a visionary leader, acclaimed author, and passionate speaker on topics related to empowering growth for women of color. She is a co-founder of nFormation, a company…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Keynote speaker and author Sheena Yap Chan on “Asian Women Leadership and Why It Matters.” Sheena works as a consultant with a focus on building self-confidence and has been featured on MindValley, FOX, ThriveGlobal, Manila Times. In 2021, she was named one of Disrupt Magazine’s TOP 10 Self Confide…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Kelly Hughes, Senior Patent Counsel at Unified Patents, LLC. Kelly is a Senior Patent Counsel at Unified Patents, where she supports Unified’s Patent and Trial Appeal Board (PTAB) practice, along with appellate practice. She was previously a patent attorney at Erise IP, focusing on patent litigatio…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Dr. Catherine Workman, Vice President of Science at National Geographic. A trained anthropologist, Catherine and Ashley discuss her journey as a scientist, visionary, and leader at National Geographic. Catherine has extensive experience in policy, strategy, management, metrics, and communication of…

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Virtual Patent Gateway Principal and Founder Ashley Cheung on “The Dao to Virtual Gateway.” Ashley is a first-generation immigrant from Hong Kong and the fearless leader of the Virtual Patent Gateway (VPG) team. VPG was founded in January of 2020 to allow Ashley to leverage her paralegal skills on …

This episode of Virtual Water Cooler Chat features Dr. Anna Yusim on “Exploring Our Soul Purpose.” Dr. Yusim is an internationally recognized, award-winning, Board-Certified Stanford and Yale-educated Psychiatrist. She completed her residency at NYU before setting up her practice as an Executive Coach in New York City. Dr. Yusim’s philosophy is to …

On today's South Florida Suburbs Show Margaret and Gary complain about how trendy fashions are made like crap. Mainly women's clothing. Also, they discuss the fact that women usually carry more stuff than men, but their clothes never seem to be made with pockets!! Gary also discusses a wardrobe malfunction he had while working on live TV. Contact S…

Want to lose your mind? Have elderly family members bother you with their tech "issues." Can anyone say, "USER ERROR?!" In this episode we talk about our elderly family members and their issues with modern technology. Adding to that, Margaret's issue and how Gary is constantly being bombarded with family members and even clients who have no clue ho…