Rather than allowing it a quiet death, the financial services industry is making a quiet effort to keep the Covered Business Methods (CBM) Program at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) alive. The special interest group… Read More »
Late last month the CEOs of four of the most powerful tech companies in the world — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, which owns Google — testified before… Read More »
Today’s greatest challenges require our greatest ingenuity and innovative savvy. These require the greatest level of security and reliability of U.S. intellectual property rights. We’re talking about developing vaccines, tests, treatments and cures for COVID-19, foundational innovations… Read More »
In just a few short months, the world as we know it has been threatened and transformed by a global pandemic — a pandemic that has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and devastated the economies… Read More »
Five years ago, the government of China launched a massive effort, supported by massive funding, to implement an ambitious master plan, Made in China 2025. Its goal is to move away from being the world’s factory of low-cost… Read More »
During the Great Recession of the late 2000s, Rahm Emmanuel, President Obama’s then-chief of staff famously stated, “Never allow a good crisis to go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do the things you once thought were… Read More »
Common sense and constitutional order are turned upside down when unelected judges countermand congressional policy decisions. In addition to having better tools to make well-informed choices and better access to a broad range of expert advice, elected… Read More »
America’s trade war with China took an unexpected turn with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the global shutdown continues to ravage both countries’ populations and economies, the trade war has taken a backseat to more… Read More »
A year ago, the Senate held three days of hearings with 45 witnesses on a legislative proposal that would have brought much-needed reform of 35 U.S.C. § 101. These extensive hearings on patent reform were unprecedented in recent times…. Read More »
In late May, a group of bipartisan leaders from both houses of Congress introduced an important bill to restore American technological leadership. Called the Endless Frontier Act, it would boost government research and development spending by $100 billion… Read More »
