Council for Innovation Promotion

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

Yesterday, the C4IP Board published an opinion piece in Euractiv highlighting how the European Commission’s recent proposal for standard-essential patents (SEPs) has empowered China to unilaterally set its own licensing terms, jeopardizing a longstanding model of international cooperation and threatening Europe’s own leadership in wireless technology. In the piece, the board explains how SEPs —

C4IP is highlighting the accomplishments of Ashok Gadgil from the University of California, Berkeley. His groundbreaking invention, utilizing ultraviolet light to purify water, was brought to market pursuant to the Bayh-Dole Act and has since saved millions of lives across the globe. Ashok Gadgil was born in Mumbai, India, in 1950. He attended the University