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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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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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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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Not just tariffs: Foreign nations profited off of us — now Trump is striking back
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Women in IP: Former Judge Kathleen O’Malley on the future of US patent policy
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C4IP Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee RE: Hearing on China and IP Theft
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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 IP News that Mattered Most in 2022, According to You,

12/19/2022
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WTO divided over expanding COVID-19 IP waiver,

12/16/2022
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C4IP Letter to Secretary Becerra RE: Xtandi March-In Petition,

12/15/2022
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The counterfeiters who steal Christmas,

12/15/2022
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C4IP Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee RE: The Interagency Patent Coordination and Improvement Act of 2022,

12/13/2022
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Patent Protections Need a PR Makeover,

12/11/2022
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USTR: Don’t let opposition to TRIPS waiver expansion stop here,

12/06/2022
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C4IP Presents Webinar on COVID Waiver Extension,

12/05/2022
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U.S. Senate Unanimously Passes the Patents for Humanity Act of 2022,

12/02/2022
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Two former Commerce Department executives take on intellectual property protection,

12/02/2022
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Unpacking the Proposed TRIPS Waiver Expansion: A Conversation with Gary Locke,

12/01/2022
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Ex-IP Chiefs Urge US To Focus On Next Pandemic, Not Waiver,

12/01/2022
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