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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
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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
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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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C4IP Written Submission RE: Inv. No. 337-TA-1380,

03/13/2025

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Patent Myth Video Series: FRAND Licensing Rates,

03/12/2025

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News:

White House Urged To Back Patent Eligibility Bill To Aid AI,

03/12/2025

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C4IP Comments RE: The Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan (2025-02305),

03/11/2025

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Council for Innovation Promotion Welcomes Nomination of John Squires as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Urges Swift Senate Consideration,

03/11/2025

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News:

John Squires Becomes Official Nominee to Head USPTO,

03/11/2025

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Blog:

This Month in IP: February 2025,

03/10/2025

Blog:

Blog:

C4IP Coalition Updates: February 2025,

03/10/2025

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Videos:

Patent Myth Video Series: Patent Thickets,

03/05/2025

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Press Releases:

Council for Innovation Promotion Applauds Rescission of Memorandum on Discretionary Denial Procedures,

03/04/2025

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Resources:

C4IP Letter to Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness RE: Special 301 Report,

03/04/2025

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Congress can fix America’s broken patent system with one reform,

03/04/2025

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