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Beginner's Mind
Blueprints for Builders and Investors
Hosted by Christian Soschner
From pre-seed to post-IPO, every company—especially in deep tech, biotech, AI, and climate tech—lives or dies by the frameworks it follows.
On Beginner’s Mind, Christian Soschner uncovers the leadership principles behind the world’s most impactful companies—through deep-dive interviews, strategic book reviews, and patterns drawn from history’s greatest business, military, and political minds.
With over 200 interviews, panels, and livestreams, the show ranks in the Top 10% globally—and is recognized as the #1 deep tech podcast.
With 35+ years across M&A, company building, board roles, business schools, ultrarunning, and martial arts, Christian brings a rare lens:
What it really takes to turn breakthrough science into business—how to grow it, lead it, and shape the world around it.
🎙 Expect each episode to deliver:
- Founder & Investor Blueprints: How breakthrough technologies scale from lab to IPO
- Historical & Biographical Frameworks: Timeless playbooks from the world's great builders
- Leadership & Communication Mastery: Tools to inspire, persuade, and lead at scale
Whether you're building the next biotech success, investing in AI, or leading a climate tech company through hypergrowth—this podcast gives you the edge.
Listen in. Apply what matters. Build companies that last.
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Beginner's Mind
#78: Gerda Redl - The Future of Life Science Patents
Warren Buffett recommends buying companies with a great moat. Something that makes the company unique and protects the business from the competition. Patents are the best moats. Do you want to know why? Then listen to Gerda Redl.
Who is the speaker?
Dr. Gerda Redl is a patent attorney with more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry.
Her technical expertise is in biotechnology, biochemistry, and chemistry, including protein engineering, biologicals, small molecules, biomarkers, antibodies, alternative scaffolds, and libraries.
Before founding REDL Life Science Patent Attorneys, she held senior management positions in biotech, mid-size, and big pharma companies.
She graduated as a biochemist and received her Ph.D. in microbiology from the Technical University of Vienna.
Topics we discuss in this episode:
➡️ The Value of Patents
➡️ Fast Track Protection
➡️ Key Territories in a globalized World
➡️ Digitalization
➡️ Interdisciplinary Inventions
Youtube: https://youtu.be/mAFQeofSh7o
🕒 Timestamps:
(00:00) Kick-Off
(04:33) Patents are Assets
(06:40) Different Types of Patents and their Economic Value
(12:56) Product or Platform Technology Patents – Case Study mRNA Vaccines
(15:38) When is the Right Time to File Patents?
(18:55) In What Cases Are Patents not Necessary?
(20:06) Patents, Trademarks, and Know-How
(21:22) Patent Filing and Deal Structuring – What is The Right Sequence of Events?
(22:13) What Confidentiality Agreements can and cannot do
(23:55) What is the perfect patent solution?
(27:20) Time and Capital Needed for Filing and Maintaining Patents
(31:05) The Best Patent and Business Development Strategy for Scientific Founders
(34:00) What territories should be protected?
(43:04) What effects have restrictive patent laws on motivating entrepreneurs to turn scientific inventions into products?
(45:15) How Patents Drive Investment Processes
(47:30) How to Overcome Patent Hurdles when third parties don’t want to commercialize their patents.
(52:45) Possibilities of Speeding Up Patent Processes
(58:29) China – The Innovation Leader of the World
(01:00:41) The FTO Jungle
(01:01:35) Acceleration of Patent Processes
(01:02:00) Digitalization of Patent Processes
(01:05:00) AI-based translations of Patents
(01:09:00) Unitary Patents in Europe
(01:17:45) The Convergence of Technologies and Patents
(01:23:31) What is First: Product Concept or Patent?
(01:25:00) First Step Towards Filing the First Patent Application
(01:27:35) It is About the People…
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