Last week The Wall Street Journal published a fascinating expose that pulled back the curtain on some of the self-serving and well-financed efforts of big high-tech companies (in this case Google) to influence academic scholarship, and ultimately public policy, in their… Read More »
The former chief judge of the Federal Circuit told a House committee Thursday that the U.S. patent system is in “crisis mode,” with America Invents Act reviews and U.S. Supreme Court decisions like Alice creating uncertainty that… Read More »
NEW YORK — The 11th edition of the Global Innovation Index 2018 (GII), co-published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, was released yesterday at a launch event in New York. This year’s report showed Switzerland still… Read More »
WHAT: Hosted by a coalition of innovators, the Inventing American 2017 conference will explore how a stronger patent system can contribute to a better economic future for the United States. The conference will feature a discussion with Representatives… Read More »
The Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, is celebrated and commemorated as what gave birth to the United States. But the nation’s ascendance from colonial poverty to global superpower in a little more than 200 years… Read More »
In 1997, Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick was deployed in Southeast Asia, where he was stationed in a remote warehouse for weeks with no way to exercise. So he grabbed an old jujitsu belt, threw it over a… Read More »
From our world-class universities and our unmatched workforce to our culture of entrepreneurship and drive for success, there are many reasons America’s economy is the strongest in the world. But a bedrock of our economy is too… Read More »
Venture capital investment in the United States has declined steadily for years, as investors abandon an uncertain domestic climate for more reliable opportunities in foreign countries. In a report on the current state of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the National… Read More »
Sitting in a hot office in Kansas City, Mo., in 1992, I was trying to do the impossible: develop a perpetual motion machine. I now know how far away I was from such an invention, but it… Read More »
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Tom Cotton (R- Ark.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Mazie Hirono (D-Haw.) today introduced the STRONGER Patents Act to protect and support inventors and innovators and ensure that our patent system… Read More »
