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Council for Innovation Promotion Releases Report on Licensing Negotiation Groups by Professor Jonathan Barnett

WASHINGTON (April 14, 2026) — Today, the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) released a new report examining the market impact of licensing...

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An Unbalanced Proposal: Licensing Negotiation Groups for Wireless Technology in the Automotive Industry
C4IP Coalition Updates: March 2026

March Highlights: Countering Chinese Threats to IP In March, China released its 15th Five-Year Plan — an economic policy roadmap that envisages...

This Month in IP: March 2026

Strong, consistent IP protections throughout U.S. history enabled the creation of innovative and useful technologies that we use regularly today. From movies...

Op-Ed from former USPTO Director David Kappos: The Nobel Prize winners have a lesson for us all

In a piece published by Fortune, C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director David Kappos explains how the work of three Nobel Prize-winning...

Continued Innovation is the Key to Maintaining U.S. National Security

The New York Times Editorial Board recently released a multi-part series, “Overmatched,” exploring the ways in which “the U.S. military is ill...

The U.S. can win the AI race — if it gets patent policy right
Fortune
New Op-Ed from Ambassador Jeffrey Gerrish and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu: Foreign nations profited off of us — now Trump is striking back

Ambassador Jeffrey Gerrish, former deputy U.S. Trade Representative, and Andrei Iancu, C4IP co-chair and former USPTO director, recently published an opinion piece...

Closing the PTAB Loophole: Targeting Real Threats to U.S. Innovation Without Overreaching
IPWatchdog
IPWatchdog Masters Hall of Fame: 2026 Award Recipients
IPWatchdog
Letters
C4IP Letter to House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet RE: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Fact Check: Limiting Injunctive Relief Harms, Not Helps, Inventors

Among the most consequential foreign policy developments is the European Union’s (EU’s) consideration of policies that could limit access to injunctive relief....

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Council for Innovation Promotion Applauds the EC’s Definitive Withdrawal of Standard Essential Patents Proposal,

08/04/2025

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EU Commission Confirms that SEP Regulation, AI Liability Directive are Officially Scrapped,

08/03/2025

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C4IP Coalition Updates: July 2025,

08/01/2025

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This Month in IP: July 2025,

08/01/2025

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Fact Check: Setting the Record Straight on Standard-Essential Patents and Innovation,

07/25/2025

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Why C4IP Opposes the Drug Competition Enhancement Act and the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act,

07/18/2025

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The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and Life Sciences Innovation,

07/15/2025

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What the Numbers Say: Patent Quality in the United States is Strong,

07/14/2025

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SCOTUS Let Us Down Again, So Congress Should Move PERA,

07/14/2025

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POLITICO Influence: Gary Locke and Lamar Smith Join C4IP Board,

07/14/2025

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Council for Innovation Promotion Welcomes Governor Gary Locke and Congressman Lamar Smith to Board,

07/14/2025

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Inventor Spotlight: Lonnie Johnson,

07/10/2025

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