Read our new blog post 💻
In it, we explain how EU policymakers should not risk repeating America's missteps when weighing any changes to injunction standards.
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Council for Innovation Promotion
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Council for Innovation Promotion
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C4IP is a bipartisan coalition dedicated to promoting strong and effective IP rights that drive innovation, boost economic competitiveness, and improve lives.
Katılım Ağustos 2022
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Next week, at @CSIS' 2026 LeadershIP conference, C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu will join a panel to discuss the evolving global competition for technological leadership and the policy frameworks needed to sustain American innovation.
Learn more and register:
csis.org/events/leaders…
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🎊 On 3/24, C4IP Co-Chairs and former USPTO Directors David Kappos and Andrei Iancu will be inducted into the IPWatchdog Masters Hall of Fame for their "histories of service to strengthening and protecting U.S. IP rights."
For more details:
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"The administration's tariffs might dominate the news cycle. But its quiet, whole-of-government effort to strengthen and defend American firms' intellectual property rights from foreign abusers may prove just as important in the effort to reshape the global trading system."
- Former Deputy USTR Ambassador Jeffrey Gerrish and C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
Read the full piece:
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Innovation is America's backbone. And innovation is inextricably linked to intellectual property rights.
That's why strong and effective IP rights, both at home and abroad, are so important.
Reach out to your representative and urge them to protect American innovation:
c4ip.org/take-action/
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"The time is ripe for policymakers to adopt IP laws that promote accountability and transparency in the rapidly developing AI field."
Learn more:
c4ip.org/council-for-in…
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A robust IP system is the key to America's world-leading economy.
It's up to Congress and the administration to strengthen this system so that inventors and entrepreneurs can bring their groundbreaking ideas to fruition.
Learn more about the bills that can help protect American innovation:
c4ip.org/key-issues/
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Register for @CenterforIP's upcoming event, where inventors, entrepreneurs, legal professionals, policymakers, and others -- including C4IP Chief Policy Officer and Counsel Jamie Simpson -- will discuss the rapidly evolving relationship between AI, IP, and business.
📅 4/23
⏰ 9 AM – 5 PM
📍 Columbus, OH
🔗 Register here: eventbrite.com/e/technology-a…
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Why should we care about IP? Hear it from C4IP Co-Chair and former @USPTO Director David Kappos:
"[IP protection matters] if you want to cure diseases. If you want your kids and grandkids to be healthier. [If] you want opportunity, jobs, increased standards of living, new products and services..."
For more:
ipprotectionmatters.org/episodes/6d4b7…
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Read this new IAM article featuring C4IP Board Member and former U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley's reflections on the visibility of women inventors, her own career path, and the future of U.S. patent policy.
Take a look:
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Visit our blog to learn how intellectual property protections and innovation go hand in hand.
Our blog posts break down key IP developments, fact-check IP myths, spotlight inventors, and much more.
Find it here 👇
c4ip.org/category/blog/
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The creation of IPRs was a response to the state of patent litigation at that time, including abuses of the patent system.
IPRs were meant to provide a meaningful opportunity for alternative review of the highly technical novelty and non-obviousness requirements of patentability, but not at the expense of endless, repetitive, or harassing reconsideration.
The last 12 years have shown the damage that is caused by allowing repeated reviews at the USPTO, which goes too far in undermining the certainty of a patent right to the detriment of a patent's ability to promote innovation.
Learn more:
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Yesterday, our chief legal and intellectual property officer, Karin Hessler, joined key industry and legal experts - Robert Cerwinski, Ryan Daniel, Charles Duan, Kevin Zive and Joseph Matal - for a stakeholder briefing on 'The Effect of @uspto Policy on Competition and Drug Prices.' The panel provided timely insights into how the PTAB’s proposed rulemaking limiting access to inter partes review (IPR) impacts market competition, generic and biosimilar medicines entry, drug pricing--and ultimately, America's patients. During the briefing, Ryan Daniel cited two specific examples to help illustrate how filing IPRs helps bring lower-cost medicines to patients years sooner than without the IPR strategy. And Kevin Zive summed up what happens if generic and biosimilar companies stop challenging patents on brand drugs, very clearly sharing that if these challenges stop, the amount people pay for medications will stay higher, for longer. And it was Karin Hessler who offered a specific call to action for Congress, around the urgency of preserving the IPR system, "We have serious concerns as the generic and biosimilar medicines industry [on the PTAB’s proposed rulemaking]. You give up defenses that can’t even be raised in an IPR. It just doesn’t mechanically work… We want everyone in Congress to better understand how important IPRs are to affordable drug prices.” Thanks again to our panelists and a very engaged group of nearly 70 attendees. We appreciate everyone's dedication to America's patients and attention on this important issue that could harshly and negatively impact the accessibility of affordable prescription treatment options in the United States. @BiosimsCouncil
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Inventor Spotlight 🔊
C4IP is recognizing James West and Gerhard Sessler, whose invention of the electret microphone in 1962 transformed the way the world captures sound.
West and Sessler's microphone revolutionized numerous technologies, including recording devices, phones, hearing aids, and GPS devices.
Learn more:
c4ip.org/inventor-spotl…
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It's false that drug companies can extend the market exclusivity of their products simply by filing large numbers of patents, or "patent thickets," on various aspects of their products.
In fact, a USPTO study found that the number of patents on a given drug did not have any relationship to when generic competitors entered the market.
It also found that the effective period of market exclusivity for all drugs studied was far below the statutory patent term of 20 years.
Learn more:
c4ip.org/debunking-pate…
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Read our letter to @JudiciaryDems @SenJudiciaryGOP regarding today's hearing on China and IP theft:
"We share serious concerns about China's efforts to illicitly obtain U.S. intellectual property..."
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ICYMI: Read our blog post on the RESTORE Patent Rights Act.
We explain how the bill's restoration of injunctive relief as the default remedy for patent infringement is necessary to give inventors -- especially small inventors and startups -- meaningful protection against infringers.
c4ip.org/newsletter/ip-…
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Don't forget to register for CSIS' 2026 LeadershIP conference!
On 3/25, policymakers, industry leaders, and other experts will gather to discuss some of the most pressing IP and innovation-related topics.
Speakers include C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, as well as C4IP Board Member and former Federal Judge Paul Michel.
For more:
csis.org/events/leaders…
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All Americans have a right to protect their intellectual property.
Yet only 13% of inventors named on U.S. patents are women, and Black Americans are around 3X less likely than white Americans to be listed as an inventor on a patent.
Learn more about this issue and how the IDEA ACT could help:
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The claim that too many "poor quality" patents are issued is often used to justify weakening the IP system.
In actuality, research has found that overall patent quality is high and that the U.S. patent system outperforms most other major global systems.
Learn more:
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Copyrights, patents, and trademarks all help musical artists turn their creative visions into reality.
Thanks to these safeguards, artists small and large can sustain their careers and continue making the music we all enjoy.
Learn more:
c4ip.org/behind-every-h…
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