New Op-Ed from C4IP Co-Chairs David Kappos and Andrei Iancu: China’s surging innovation investments are a wake-up call to Congress
C4IP Co-Chairs and former USPTO Directors David Kappos and Andrei Iancu just published a new opinion piece in The Hill, which draws from C4IP’s newly released Congressional Innovation Scorecard to explain how the U.S. can fix the growing disparity between its R&D spending and China’s. The scorecard found that a supermajority of Congress — nearly
Fact Check: The WHO Draft Treaty Would Sabotage Pandemic Preparedness
America’s strong intellectual property system played a pivotal role in the rapid global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patents provided crucial incentives for the development of life-saving vaccines, therapies, and diagnostic tests, all of which were distributed globally. However, despite these successes, there are ongoing efforts by certain global leaders to pursue an international agreement at the World Health Organization (WHO) that would erode
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Council for Innovation Promotion Releases Inaugural Congressional Innovation Scorecard
Today, the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) released its inaugural Congressional Innovation Scorecard. The Scorecard assesses the record of every member of Congress on pivotal issues related to U.S. innovation and assigns a grade to each based on the extent to which they are working to advance strong and effective intellectual property rights that promote American innovation, creative output, and industry.
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New Op-Ed from Judges (ret.) Paul Michel and Kathleen O’Malley: Congress needs to clean up the Supreme Court’s mess on patents
Last week, C4IP board members and former federal judges Paul Michel and Kathleen O’Malley published an opinion piece in The Hill highlighting the dire need to pass the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act. The piece traces the origins of the current “crisis of patentability” back to a pair of Supreme Court cases in the early 2010s.
Inventor Spotlight: Mark Dean
This month, C4IP is recognizing Mark Dean, a pioneer of personal computers. Dean was born in Jefferson City, Tennessee, in 1957, and studied electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee and Florida Atlantic University before becoming chief engineer of IBM’s personal computers division at the age of 25. He led the team behind IBM’s first personal computer and holds three of
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This Month in IP: February 2024
Innovation requires IP. Without a strong patent system, innovation does not happen at scale. Virtually every invention of impact is patented, as exemplified by these historical examples from the month of February: 1916: On February 8, Charles Kettering received a patent for the first self-starting automobile engine, a technology that has since been universally incorporated
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