Council for Innovation Promotion

C4IP Co-Chairs and former USPTO Directors Andrei Iancu and David Kappos recently published an opinion piece in Fortune about how Big Tech firms have weaponized the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to steal smaller companies’ patents — and how the PREVAIL Act would solve this. Since the creation of the PTAB in 2011, Big

This month, C4IP is recognizing Frederic Eugene Ives, whose prolific inventions pioneered several technological leaps in photography. Ives was born in 1856 in Litchfield, Connecticut, and became involved with photography from a young age – first as an apprentice at the Litchfield Enquirer, and later as a leader of the photographic laboratory at Cornell University.

C4IP board member and retired federal judge Kathleen O’Malley recently published a new opinion piece in World Intellectual Property Review on how the proposed NO FAKES Act would help guard creators’ and artists’ intellectual property against the misuse of emerging AI technology. The Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act would

August was a productive month for C4IP! Here’s a roundup of all that we accomplished over the past month. August Highlights: Supporting the RESTORE Patent Rights Act Inventors depend on strong patent rights to ensure that they can invest in research and development and know that their innovations – once successful – won’t be immediately

Strong, consistent IP protections throughout U.S. history enabled the creation of innovative and useful technologies that we use regularly today. From frozen food to bridge construction, every aspect of our lives has benefited greatly from IP, as shown by these historical examples from the month of August: 1931: On August 18, Henry Bosenberg received the

On May 9, 2024, the USPTO issued a notice of proposed rulemaking adding a new requirement for filing terminal disclaimers, which are generally used to allow inventors to receive multiple patents stemming from the same patent application. This allows inventors to obtain an initial patent quickly if there is agreement with the examiner that some