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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...

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...

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...

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....

Not just tariffs: Foreign nations profited off of us — now Trump is striking back
Fox News
Women in IP: Former Judge Kathleen O’Malley on the future of US patent policy
IAM
Letters
C4IP Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee RE: Hearing on China and IP Theft
Inventor Spotlight: James West and Gerhard Sessler

C4IP is recognizing James West (born 1931) and Gerhard Sessler (born 1931), whose invention of the electret microphone transformed the way the...

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The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) and University of Maryland Host Roundtable on PG County Innovation Ecosystem With Rep. Glenn Ivey (MD-4),

07/25/2023

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Press Releases:

The Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) and University of Maryland Host Roundtable on PG County Innovation Ecosystem With Rep. Glenn Ivey (MD-4),

07/24/2023

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C4IP Q&A Series: Revisiting Interview with Senator Thom Tillis, Part 2,

07/21/2023

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Patent Office Rulemaking Can Curb Abuses via America Invents Act,

07/19/2023

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Who does Advancing America’s Interests Act really help?,

07/18/2023

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Celebrating American Innovation: Josephine Cochrane,

07/18/2023

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C4IP Letter to Senator Thom Tillis RE: Support of PERA,

07/14/2023

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The Future of AI and IP,

07/13/2023

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C4IP Report Urges Pro-IP Rights Agenda to Counteract U.S. Innovation Stagnation,

07/11/2023

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Iancu and O’Malley Head to Sullivan & Cromwell,

07/11/2023

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Press Releases:

With New Policy Agenda, C4IP Calls on Congress to Protect and Enhance U.S. IP Leadership,

07/11/2023

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C4IP Comments RE: PAHPA,

07/10/2023

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