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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
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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
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IPWatchdog Masters Hall of Fame: 2026 Award Recipients
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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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Debunking common myths in the SEP patent pool debate,

01/28/2026
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C4IP Comments RE: The 2026 Special 301 Review (USTR-2025-0243),

01/28/2026
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Inventor Spotlight: George de Mestral,

01/23/2026
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How to avoid buying fake sports merchandise ahead of Super Bowl Sunday,

01/21/2026
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Hearings & Markups: Trade Subcommittee Hearing on Maintaining American Innovation and Technology Leadership,

01/19/2026
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Fact Check: Debunking The Myth of “Evergreening” and “Patent Thicketing”,

01/16/2026
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Former USPTO director urges legislators to pass patent reform laws, bolster international IP enforcement,

01/15/2026
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Witnesses Urge Action on Digital Trade,

01/14/2026
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Iancu Urges House Trade Subcommittee to Address Weakening of U.S. IP Rights By America’s Trading Partners,

01/14/2026
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Artificial Intelligence And Patent Law,

01/13/2026
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Council for Innovation Promotion Responds to Passage of EU General Pharmaceutical Legislation,

01/08/2026
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This Month in IP: December 2025,

01/06/2026
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