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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
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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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This Month in IP: January 2024,

02/01/2024

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WTO appears close to rejecting a proposed waiver on patents for Covid diagnostics and therapies,

01/31/2024

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When inventors get an AI assist, who gets the patent?,

01/31/2024

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The Biden administration should not support a WTO petition to strip IP protections from Covid-19 treatments,

01/31/2024

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C4IP Comments RE: Implications of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Commitments/Regimes and Other Proposed Commitments in the WHO Pandemic Agreement,

01/30/2024

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C4IP Comments RE: Special 301 Review,

01/30/2024

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Iancu, Michel and Other PTAB Masters Panelists Float Ways to Make the System Better,

01/30/2024

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The March-In Drug Price Control Narrative Crumbles While Its Damage to American Innovation Grows,

01/29/2024

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Misusing the Bayh-Dole Act’s March-In Rights is Not an Effective Way to Reduce Drug Prices,

01/29/2024

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Biden’s Bayh-Dole Act proposal misuses ‘march-in rights’,

01/25/2024

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Europe Stands at a Crossroads on Technology Policy,

01/24/2024

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Briefing on the Bayh-Dole Act and March-In Rights,

01/24/2024

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