Before the new season of Clause 8 starts Tuesday, I went back to see which parts of last season’s conversations found the biggest audiences during our first season on YouTube. What rose to the top was more interesting than I expected.
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No fistfights yet. Until then, below are eight of the most-watched Clause 8 videos from last season, ranked by views, and one honorable mention.
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Last Season’s Most-Watched
1. Corey Salsberg: The Truth About Drug Patents · 16K views
Novartis’ Global Head of IP Affairs takes on the patent-thicket argument and the claim that pharmaceutical companies use patents to improperly extend drug monopolies.
2. Lisa Ascolese, “The Inventress”: When to File a Patent (and When It’s Too Soon) · 16K
Should you get a patent before talking to investors, retailers, or manufacturers? An inventor who’s spent a career turning ideas into products weighs in.
3. Tyrome Brown: How Dolby Balances Patent Quality, Transparency & Innovation · 13K
Dolby’s VP and Chief Patent Counsel explains how one of the world’s most experienced licensing companies thinks about building strong patent portfolios while maintaining trust with licensees.
4. Gil Hyatt: The AI Revolution That Almost Was · 12K
Hyatt returned to Clause 8 to discuss his Pioneering AI Foundation and why AI-related patent applications allowed more than 20 years ago still have not issued as patents.
5. James Edwards: What the Founding Fathers Really Thought About Patent Rights · 7.5K
The author of To Invent Is Divine on the surprisingly complicated debate among the founders over patents, property rights, and how to encourage invention — and the history behind the name Clause 8.
6. Jane Bu: Why Licensing in Asia Requires a Different Approach · 7.1K
Jane Bu on why successful licensing in Asia often depends on trust, relationships, and repeated in-person engagement — and how China has evolved into one of the world’s most sophisticated licensing markets. Recorded at the 2025 Bridge Summit, when she was Via LA’s Chief Licensing Officer; she has since joined Avanci as Senior Vice President of Licensing.
7. Jerry Lorengo: The USPTO’s New Streamlined Review · 5.8K
Then-Deputy Commissioner for Patents Jerry Lorengo explained the USPTO’s new streamlined review process and what practitioners needed to know about it. The program has since been suspended; Lorengo is now the USPTO’s Acting Chief Communications Officer.
8. Brian Dorini: Why Patent Pools Still Deliver Value · 5.6K
Brian Dorini, Head of Audio Patents at Dolby, on why patent pools can still deliver enormous value even without every patent owner participating — and why negotiating through a pool can beat doing deals one company at a time.
Honorable Mention: Garrard Beeney & John Sideris: Inside the Evolution of Patent Pools · 3.1K
Featuring two of the people who helped usher in the modern patent-pool era.
The new season begins Tuesday with another reporters’ roundtable — this time with an international angle.
Inbar Preiss of MLex, who covers IP from Brussels, joins Olivia Rafferty of ip fray and Nisha Shetty of IAM to talk about Europe’s growing importance as a global patent-litigation venue, the biggest IP stories of the past year, and what practitioners should be watching next.
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