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Podcast: Two IPs In A Pod
Episode: From Industry To Patent Office Director with Maja Schmitt
Description: Send us Fan MailA chemist hears a patent attorney speak and sees a future. Years later, that same attorney is directing a national patent office and helping rewrite how innovation gets protected. This conversation with Maja Schmitt travels from labs and in‑house roles to China and The Hague, and lands on a bold policy move: the Netherlands is returning to examined national patents after years of registration-only grants.