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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
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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The U.S. can win the AI race — if it gets patent policy right
Fortune
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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...

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Closing the PTAB Loophole: Targeting Real Threats to U.S. Innovation Without Overreaching
IPWatchdog
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IPWatchdog Masters Hall of Fame: 2026 Award Recipients
IPWatchdog
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C4IP Letter to House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet RE: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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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 Letter to House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Trade RE: Special 301 Report,

03/03/2025
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Former USPTO Deputy Director Peter Joins C4IP Advisory Board,

02/28/2025
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Fact Check: The U.S. Patent System Upholds High Standards of Quality,

02/27/2025
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Council for Innovation Promotion Welcomes Laura Peter to Advisory Board,

02/27/2025
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Protecting Innovation Starts with Protecting Small Inventors,

02/27/2025
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Patent Myth Video Series: Product Hopping,

02/26/2025
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Inventor Spotlight: Warren S. Johnson,

02/26/2025
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Coons, Cotton Reintroduce RESTORE Act on Injunctive Relief,

02/26/2025
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Council for Innovation Promotion Applauds Reintroduction of the RESTORE Patent Rights Act,

02/25/2025
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Sens. Reintroduce Measure To Boost Patent Injunctions,

02/25/2025
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MAHA’s misguided war on pharma,

02/21/2025
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C4IP Letter to President Trump RE: Inauguration,

02/19/2025
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