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The SHOP SAFE Act, which was introduced in the House of Representatives by Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Ben Cline (R-VA), and Hank Johnson (D-GA) on June 11, is an important bill that would help protect consumers and businesses from harmful counterfeit products by making e-commerce platforms responsible for vetting products’ legitimacy. Despite

C4IP Co-Chairs and former USPTO Directors Andrei Iancu and David Kappos just published a new opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal exploring how the ambiguity of the USPTO’s recent guidance on patenting AI-assisted inventions could inadvertently discourage inventors from making use of artificial intelligence tools. They highlight numerous ambiguities in the guidance — including

C4IP is celebrating Jaap Haartsen, whose invention of Bluetooth wireless technology has helped integrate electronic devices seamlessly into our daily lives. Haartsen was born in 1963 in The Hague, Netherlands and began his career at Siemens and Phillips before earning his Ph.D. from Delft University and moving to Swedish company Ericsson. His first breakthrough in

June was a productive month for C4IP! Here’s a roundup of what our Coalition accomplished over the past month. June Highlights: Combating Counterfeit Products Online Weakened IP rights not only put innovators and businesses at risk, they also have dangerous consequences for consumers. This is evidenced by the spread of counterfeit products, which infringe established

Strong, consistent IP protections throughout U.S. history enabled the creation of innovative and useful technologies that we use regularly today. From office work to agriculture, every aspect of our lives has benefited greatly from IP, as shown by these historical examples from the month of June: 1974: On June 25, Jack Kilby received a patent

Like inventors in every sector, drug developers rely on strong patent protections to create new and innovative medicines. However, because of the prices of many drugs, activists frequently blame patents and accuse companies of abusing the patent system with tactics such as “product hopping,” “evergreening,” and “patent thicketing.” This troubling trend continued during the Senate

Karen Kerrigan, the president and CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, just published an opinion piece in the Buffalo News explaining how the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and PREVAIL Act would help startups gain venture funding and bring their groundbreaking inventions to market. She illustrates the importance of patents to startup success, with

This month, C4IP is celebrating Ivan Getting, who made possible the invention of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and transformed the way that people around the world travel and do business. Getting was born in 1912 in New York City and studied at MIT and Oxford before the onset of World War II pushed him into a career in defense technology,

C4IP accomplished a lot during the month of May! Here’s a roundup of what our Coalition has been doing over the past month. May Highlights: Debunking Patent Myths As drug prices continue to be a focus for federal policymakers, anti-IP activists have seized the opportunity to blame the patent system. These attacks ignore the fundamental

Strong, consistent IP protections throughout U.S. history enabled the creation of the innovative and useful technologies that we use regularly today. From communication to transportation, every aspect of our lives has benefited greatly from IP, as shown by these historical examples from the month of May: 1964: On May 19, IBM engineers Louis Stevens, William

Bringing a new therapeutic to market is a challenging and costly endeavor. Strong intellectual property protections, which enable manufacturers to recoup their successful investments into new treatments, are absolutely essential to encouraging innovation. However, activists and government regulators who seek to weaken IP rights often fail to recognize this fundamental reality. One example of this

C4IP Co-Chair and former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, along with Mark Cohen, the former director of UC Berkeley’s Asia IP Project, recently published an opinion piece in the International Business Times focusing on China’s secretive policy of issuing anti-suit injunctions, which puts innovative American companies at a major disadvantage when fighting patent theft from Chinese