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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
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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
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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Inventor Spotlight: The Wright Brothers,

04/21/2023

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When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’,

04/20/2023

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Public Comments on European Commission Draft SEP Regulation,

04/19/2023

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America weakens intellectual property rights while global rivals strengthen them,

04/19/2023

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IP VIPs Slam U.S. Government’s Bid to Extend Section 1498(a) to Private Patent Infringement,

04/18/2023

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The U.S. Patent System Isn’t Broken,

04/18/2023

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Fact Check: There Is No Patent Quality Crisis,

04/18/2023

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This Week in Washington IP: Budget Hearings, Problems Posed by AI, and Government Use of Section 1498 for Private Patent Infringement,

04/17/2023

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Does Section 1498 Really Allow the Government to Ignore Patent Protections?,

04/17/2023

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C4IP Response to CMS Solicitation of Comments Concerning Initial Guidance on the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Medicare Drug Negotiation Program,

04/14/2023

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America can defeat China and win the future if we do this one thing,

04/14/2023

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Vidal Tells IP Press USPTO Has Been Listening and Learning in Year One—But Now It’s Time for Action,

04/13/2023

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