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Clause 8
Hosted by Eli Mazour · business · EN
About this Podcast:
Clause 8 is the long-form IP podcast hosted by Eli Mazour, featuring conversations with the people and forces shaping the patent system.Its audience includes sophisticated in-house counsel, judges, IP policymakers, senior USPTO officials, patent dealmakers, and leading practitioners. The show is designed to help listeners stay ahead of the curve by understanding not just the latest patent developments, but the personalities, incentives, and institutions behind them.Clause 8 features conversations that provide strategic insight into patent law, policy, innovation, licensing, and other issues affecting the IP community. Past guests have included major American innovators, federal judges, USPTO Directors, senior IP staff on Capitol Hill, in-house leaders, patent dealmakers — and Carole Baskin’s attorney from Tiger King.Law360 featured Clause 8 first in its 2026 list of “5 Podcasts to Keep IP Attys Entertained and Informed,” describing its guests as “a bit of a who’s who of IP law.”Cla
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What is Clause 8 about?
Clause 8 is the long-form IP podcast hosted by Eli Mazour, featuring conversations with the people and forces shaping the patent system. Its audience includes sophisticated in-house counsel, judges, IP policymakers, senior USPTO officials, patent dealmakers, and leading practitioners.
Who hosts Clause 8?
Clause 8 is hosted by Eli Mazour. The show has published 104 episodes to date.
What has Clause 8 covered recently?
Recent episodes include "AI Boom Calls for New Copyright Law, Says USPTO Chief Behind the DMCA" (19 May 2026, 76 minutes), "The AI Patent Team Alice Built Shares Its Prosecution Secrets" (5 May 2026, 46 minutes), and "Inventor Gil Hyatt's gift to America, will America accept it?" (21 April 2026, 19 minutes).
How often does Clause 8 publish?
Clause 8 publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 104 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Clause 8?
Booking probability for Clause 8 is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Clause 8 requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Clause 8's contact route on record: verified email.
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Eli Mazour hosts Clause 8, a business podcast with 104 episodes published.
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May 5, 202646 minS0<p>When Alice came down in 2014, much of the patent prosecution bar reacted with denial. Most practitioners hoped the USPTO, the Federal Circuit, or Congress would clean things up — and that adding some magic language...
Apr 21, 202619 minS0<p>President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pride themselves on being dealmakers and on making the kind of unconventional deals for America no one else could have gotten done. Gil Hyatt is offering them one...
Apr 7, 202656 minS0<p>Is anything in the patent world ever really free?</p><p>That question anchors a new Clause 8 conversation between host Eli Mazour and Professor Kristen Osenga, a University of Richmond law professor and one of the...
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USPTO Director John Squires' 'Foxhole Buddy' Tells All, Previews Message at Upcoming House Hearing
Mar 22, 20261h 9mS0<p>The story of how John Squires became USPTO Director doesn’t start inside the Beltway. It starts on the Appalachian Trail, with Doug Pittman camping under shooting stars the night after Trump won the...
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Mar 10, 202651 minS0<p>Eli Mazour is joined by Juristat’s Francesca Cruz and patent attorney Clint Mehall to look at what the examination data actually says about recent USPTO changes. The conversation moves past anecdotes to analyze how...
Feb 24, 202653 minS0<p>Artificial intelligence has been raising foundational questions for patent law long before generative tools entered the mainstream. In this episode of Clause 8, host Eli Mazour speaks with Wen Xie, U.S. Patent...
Feb 10, 20261h 11mS0<p>In the latest episode of Clause 8, recorded in December 2025, Eli Mazour sits down with Peter-Anthony Pappas, Director of Intellectual Property Policy for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary under Senator Thom...
Jan 27, 202626 minS0<p>How do you protect the IP of a rapidly growing technology company in the dynamic AI sector without slowing engineers or missing what really matters?</p><p>That question is at the center of this episode of Clause 8...
Jan 13, 20261h 20mS0<p>While many people talk about mentorship, HP’s Chief IP Counsel Ceyda Maisami and Tradespace’s VP of IP Operations & Client Success Marcia Chang actually live it.</p><p>In this episode, Ceyda and Marcia join Clause 8...
Dec 30, 202517 minS0<p>At the 2025 Via Licensing Alliance Bridge Summit in San Francisco, Brian Dorini, Senior Director at Dolby, and Tyrome Brown, Dolby’s Chief Patent Counsel, offered a clear-eyed look at the state of patent pools and...
Dec 16, 20251h 21mS0<p>Recent changes at USPTO are increasingly shaping the context in which Congress considers potential patent legislation.</p><p>In the latest episode of Clause 8, the focus turns to how the USPTO’s evolving approach to...
Dec 2, 20251h 10mS0<p>Corey Salsberg, one of the leading voices on intellectual property policy in the United States, joins Clause 8 to discuss surviving the anti-pharma activism of the last administration, why he’s encouraged by the...
Nov 21, 202538 minS0<p>At the Via Licensing Alliance’s Bridge Summit 2025 in San Francisco, Clause 8 host Eli Mazour sat down with two leaders who ushered in the modern age of patent pools: Garrard Beeney, founder of Sullivan & Cromwell’s...
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Exclusive Interview: USPTO Deputy Commissioner Explains Changes to Examiner Performance Plan
Nov 4, 20251h 7mS0<p>In this episode of Clause 8, Deputy Commissioner for Patents Jerry Lorengo joins host Eli Mazour to share valuable, practical insights for patent professionals navigating the USPTO’s new Performance Appraisal Plan...
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“The Inventress” Lisa Ascolese on the Realities of Being an Inventor: You Can’t Skip the Work
Oct 21, 202543 minS0<p>When I first heard about Lisa Ascolese, known as “The Inventress,” I knew I wanted to bring her story to Clause 8.</p><p>Lisa’s path into inventing began after her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where her...
Oct 7, 202539 minS0<p>At the Via LA 2025 Bridge Summit in San Francisco, Clause 8 host Eli Mazour sat down with two leaders who play pivotal roles in connecting innovators and licensees around the world:</p><p>* Jane Bu, Chief Licensing...
Sep 23, 20251 hourS0<p>Tech transfer has long been a critical but often overlooked part of the intellectual property system. For decades, the Bayh-Dole Act has guided how federally funded research moves from university labs into the...
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Why Creativity Needs Ownership: James Edwards on the Biblical Roots of IP & the Future of Patents
Sep 9, 202558 minS0<p>In To Invent Is Divine: Creativity and Ownership, Jim makes the case that creativity and ownership are inseparable—and that weakening intellectual property rights threatens the flourishing that invention enables. He...
Aug 26, 20251h 3mS0<p>From Coke Morgan Stewart’s decisive actions at the USPTO, to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s unexpected “patent tax” trial balloon, to the ongoing Federal Circuit drama — it felt impossible to figure out where to...
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David Jones
instructor, consultant, and executive coach with McClaskey Excellence Institute, South Carolina House of Representatives District 5
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Lisa Ascolese
CEO and founder, My Home Hoboken - Engel & Volkers Hoboken & Jersey City
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James Edwards
Senior Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Conservatives for Property Rights
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Michael Shapiro
co-head of Capital Markets and Syndicate, Ohio Dental Implants and Oral Surgery
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