

Doc Brown and Marty McFly: A Mentoring Case Study for IP and Legal Professionals Future and Present
The relationship of Marty McFly and Doc Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy reveals salient insights about mentoring that IP and legal practitioners can apply to their professional and personal lives.

Carlo Cotrone
Jul 2, 2025


How to Restructure Teams: Guidance for Enlightened Leaders
In its immediate aftermath, team restructuring commonly anoints both winners and losers. Sometimes overlooked are restructuring’s potential insidious, lasting effects on an organization. C-suite executives, organizational leaders, and other relevant decision-makers can leverage the following tips to increase restructuring’s benefits and reduce its human costs and disruptions.

Carlo Cotrone
Jun 10, 2025


Why In-House Counsel Should Pursue External Professional Development Opportunities
In-house attorneys sometimes compartmentalize their work lives in counterproductive ways. The hit TV show "Severance" offers instructive lessons: A prudent legal professional both serves their current employer with excellence and is active in the wider professional community.

Carlo Cotrone
May 7, 2025


Invention Harvesting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Invention harvesting is a framework for prompting innovators to conceive of new inventions or describe inventions already conceived, and documenting such inventions for subsequent protection via the patenting process or, if appropriate, as trade secrets. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and related software tools can be leveraged by companies, universities, law firms, and IP service providers to overcome common impediments to invention harvesting. Adopting and

Carlo Cotrone
May 1, 2025
