Podcast: Managing IP 2020 review – 12 months in 40 minutes

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Podcast: Managing IP 2020 review – 12 months in 40 minutes

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Managing IP’s journalists pick their favourite interviewees and issues from 2020, and predict which topics will be hot in 2021

In a special end-of-year podcast, Managing IP’s editorial team reflected on an action-packed 12 months for intellectual property and the wider world.

Managing editor Ed Conlon was joined by Americas editor Patrick Wingrove, senior reporter Max Walters and Europe reporter Charlotte Kilpatrick to discuss COVID litigation, exoskeletons, Brexit and much more.

To find out who enjoyed a “deeply philosophical” conversation with one inventor and which issue is still – unbelievably – being discussed, click the link below.


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