Hello,
This week’s Clause 8 episode features Bridget Smith, Assistant General Counsel and Director, Intellectual Property at Relativity Space—the first company to successfully create and launch a 3D-printed rocket. 🚀
Bridget, who previously made waves as a top PTAB practitioner, is now at the helm of IP strategy at Relativity Space, where she’s implementing an innovative approach to IP by using a trade secrets registry. In an industry that moves at light speed, Bridget’s focus on tracking and protecting proprietary know-how is as critical as her work with patents.
To Bridget, communication is all about the “so what?” In that spirit, here are the highlights from the episode:
How Bridget established a trade secrets registry that captures and protects a vast amount of innovation efficiently.
How the specific needs and exposure of the space industry affects Relativity Space’s balance of trade secrets and patents.
Why Bridget thinks of IP management as understanding what keeps business leaders up at night:
"Ask somebody not in terms of just ‘what do you think of this nitty gritty patent stuff’, but rather broader strokes of like, ‘what is keeping you up at night?’"
How she maintains adaptability and foresight when working with groundbreaking tech.
Best,
The Clause 8 Team
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