Building an IP Strategy for the Final Frontier: A Conversation with Bridget Smith of Relativity Space 🚀

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.

In this 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.

* How she maintains adaptability and foresight when working with groundbreaking tech.

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