WASHINGTON (October 3, 2023) — Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Intellectual Property Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the recently introduced SHOP SAFE Act of 2023. Frank Cullen, executive director of the Council for Innovation Promotion, issued the following statement in support of the bill: “The introduction of the SHOP SAFE Act by Chairman Coons […]
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WASHINGTON (September 29, 2023) — The Council for Innovation Promotion released the following statement today following the passing of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.): “Senator Feinstein’s life of public service should be an inspiration to all of us. She had a significant impact on virtually every policy area during her thirty years in the U.S. Senate.
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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
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Walter Copan, Ph.D. — vice president for research and technology transfer at the Colorado School of Mines, senior advisor with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and former director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — recently published an opinion piece in the Boulder Daily Camera explaining the importance of
Claim: During the NIH’s virtual workshop on July 31, Knowledge Ecology International’s (KEI) James Love claimed that the “reasonable pricing” provision required by the NIH in its Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)…
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C4IP is recognizing Clarence Birdseye — the “Father of Frozen Food” — whose invention of the quick-freezing method pioneered the modern frozen foods industry. Clarence Birdseye was born in 1886 in Brooklyn, New York. From an early age, Birdseye had a strong interest in the natural sciences; he studied biology for two years at Amherst College before leaving to
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Today, former Texas Congressman Lamar Smith published an opinion piece in the Dallas Morning News on two bipartisan bills that could revitalize innovation and help entrepreneurs in the United States: the PREVAIL Act and the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act. The PREVAIL Act would reform the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), preventing Big Tech firms
