Council for Innovation Promotion

Claim: During a January 23 Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hearing, Richard Blaylock — on behalf of Invitae Corporation — claimed that “PERA as introduced would stifle innovation and harm patient care in the fields of diagnostic genetic testing and precision medicine.” Correction: The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) is an essential reform to […]

C4IP is recognizing John Kellogg, whose invention of the first breakfast cereal transformed American nutrition. John Harvey Kellogg was born in Michigan in February 1852. Kellogg learned early on to value healthy living, which ultimately led him to pursue a career in medicine. He studied at the University of Michigan Medical School and later at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where

Happy New Year! C4IP’s 2024 has been off to a busy start. Here’s a roundup of what our Coalition has accomplished so far this year. On January 31, C4IP Co-Chair Andrei Iancu and former NSCAI Director of Research and Analysis Rama Elluru published an opinion essay in Reuters centered on the intersection of artificial intelligence

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 January: 1967: On January 3, Harry Thomason received a patent for technology to heat and cool a building using solar energy. Thomason’s invention is

Claim: On December 7, the Biden administration proposed a policy framework claiming a newfound authority, under the 43-year-old Bayh-Dole Act, to rescind patent licenses on drugs, energy, climate change, and all other inventions that benefit from federal research funding based on the price of the resulting product. The administration asserts that this framework is an