Council for Innovation Promotion

This month, C4IP is recognizing Bill Bowerman, a collegiate track coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc., who revolutionized sport and style with his invention of the modern athletic shoe. William Jay “Bill” Bowerman Jr. was born in Portland, Oregon in 1911. He attended Medford High School and later the University of Oregon, where he excelled

Today, former Vermont Governor and Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Howard Dean published an opinion piece in the Hartford Courant arguing that in order to maintain American leadership in innovation, the Biden administration must take a stand for IP rights by decisively rejecting the use of the Bayh-Dole Act’s “march-in” provision to control prices. Passed

September was a busy month for C4IP! Here’s a roundup of what our Coalition has accomplished over the past month. On October 3, C4IP Executive Director Frank Cullen issued a statement in support of the recently-reintroduced Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-Commerce (SHOP SAFE) Act. “The legislation will take meaningful steps to

C4IP is recognizing patents, copyrights, and trademarks registered during the month of September for historic inventions that changed their industries and the way we live today. 1948: On September 7, Louis Parker received a patent for the television receiver, which allowed sound and picture to be coordinated and continues to be an integral part of all modern televisions. In 2021,

Former Georgia Congressman Doug Collins recently published an opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on how 11 years of ill-informed Supreme Court decisions have substantially weakened IP rights and set back American innovation — and how the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act would remedy this problem to revitalize numerous high-tech industries. Collins explains how rulings like