Fact Check: The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act Would Promote Medical Innovation
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
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C4IP Accepting Applications For Prestigious D.C. Summer 2024 Internship
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 12, 2024) — Today, the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP) opened applications for its summer internship program based in Washington, D.C. Interns will have an opportunity to work directly with nationally recognized IP experts, including two past directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and two former Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Celebrating American Innovation: John Kellogg
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
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C4IP Coalition Updates: January 2024
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
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This Month in IP: January 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 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
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Fact Check: Misusing the Bayh-Dole Act’s March-In Rights is Not an Effective Way to Reduce Drug Prices
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