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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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Patent Wars: Innovators, Revolutionaries, and the Race to Reform,

03/21/2023

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C4IP Letter to Senate HELP Committee RE: The Bayh-Dole Act and 28 U.S. Code § 1498,

03/17/2023

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Inventor Spotlight: Bob Born, the “Father of Peeps”,

03/15/2023

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Patents, spy balloons and outcompeting China: What our leaders are missing,

03/12/2023

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C4IP Comments RE: Joint USPTO-FDA Collaboration Initiatives (PTO-P-2022-0037),

03/10/2023

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Doubting juries is a mistake: Patent cases can be handled perfectly well by courts and citizens,

03/10/2023

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Digital Piracy Throws Creative Ecosystem into Disarray,

03/08/2023

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Will the Biden administration undermine cutting-edge industries in Texas?,

03/06/2023

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Fact Check: Proposed FTC Rule to Ban Non-Competes Will Hamper Innovation,

03/03/2023

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C4IP Co-Sponsors 118th Congress Welcome Reception, featuring the Creative Rights Caucus,

03/02/2023

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Humira Shows That America’s Patent Innovation System Is Working,

02/24/2023

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C4IP Comments RE: Certain Light-Based Physiological Measurement Devices and Components Thereof (337-TA-1276),

02/23/2023

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