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“To be able to retain the fruits of one’s labor; to be able to see one’s work made permanent; to be able to bequeath one’s property to one’s posterity; to be able to rise from the natural condition of grinding poverty to the security of enduring accomplishment; to have something that is really one’s own — these are advantages difficult to deny.”

— Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Call to Congress: Strengthen America w/ Strong Patents

For those in Congress who value innovation as the lifeblood of American economic and technological

leadership, the signals from bipartisan lawmakers and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could not be clearer. It's time for lawmakers, especially Republicans, to seize this opportunity and move forward boldly on propatent legislation.

FOX BUSINESS
UK Plan Hurts U.S. Innovators, Advantages China

The UK's government takeover of standard-essential patent licensing assaults U.S. participants in the standards-development process. It devalues superior technologies while handing China the ability to win with patent quantity over quality.

TOWNHALL
Patent Tax a Chokehold on U.S. Innovation

Commerce Dept. must abandon its avant-garde policy proposal and uphold America’s longstanding model of rewarding competitive domestic invention with democratized, merit-based patents and full fruits of one's labor.

FOX BUSINESS
Nearly 40 Conservative Orgs Weigh in on Patent Tax

More than 30 organizations warn Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that a patent tax would undermine innovation benefits and undermine the tax cut benefits in President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

CENTER SQUARE
Use Tough Trade Tools to End Foreign Freeloading

Foreign countries with government-run health systems underpay for American-made drugs. The administration must employ robust trade policies and tactics to cudgel foreign freeloaders to pay their fair share.

ECONOMIC STANDARD
IRA & MFN: Two Sides of the Same Coin

The Democrats' dreadful "Inflation Reduction Act" is causing consumers' health premiums, coinsurance, and deductibles to go up, while its Rx price controls reduce innovation. So why is Trump pushing socialist Most Favored Nation drug price controls?

IP WATCHDOG 
SCOTUS Drops Ball, Congress Must Act

The domestic judicial chaos around patent eligibility puts American innovation, competitiveness, and economic and national security at stake. It's time for PERA.

GREENVILLE (SC) NEWS 
USTR Report Must Stand for U.S. IP

In Special 301 report, the U.S. Trade Rep must fight back against blatant foreign theft and restore strong IP enforcement that puts America and South Carolina first.

TOWNHALL
DOGE Can Save $ on PTAB

PTAB has an open secret. Its own ends don't meet. In fact, PTAB’s failure to cover its own costs not only distorts the unit's decision making, PTAB gets subsidized by the PTO fees of patent applicants and patent owners.

REAL CLEAR POLICY
Strong Patents Boost U.S. Security

Policy failures undermine American innovation and cripple R&D at home through price controls and “democratizing” IP. Pres. Trump’s support for IP protections and fair competition may boost U.S. ingenuity.

DAILY CALLER
Groups Urge Policy Changes

Conservatives seek course correction for U.S. competitiveness and innovation lead.

TOWNHALL
Restore America's Innovation

PREVAIL and PERA will spark an explosion of opportunity — one in which the next AI application or medical discovery isn't hobbled by ill-considered barriers to IP protection.

TOWNHALL
Bill Hurts IP System

S. 2780 upends the IP system. Mandating identical disclosure to FDA and PTO risks patents and trade secrets.

NATIONAL REVIEW
35 Groups Support Senate Patent Bills

Coalition urges Senate Judiciary Committee to pass two bipartisan patent bills to strengthen patents and promote American innovation.

THE HILL
Groups Urge U.S. Technology Protections

Conservative leaders call on members of Congress to take bipartisan action to confront the growing threat from China when it comes to technology and research.

IP WATCHDOG
eBay and RESTORE Act

 

Restoring patent rights—namely through access to injunctive relief—would help reverse courts’ adverse effects and boost IP’s market value.

IP PROTECTION MATTERS
The Conservative Case for Strong IP Protections

CPR’s James Edwards talks IP’s importance on CFIF’s new podcast IP Protection Matters.

TOWNHALL
Strong IP Builds U.S. Economy

From land deeds to patents, societies that respect property rights and enable people to accumulate property and protect it from theft thrive.

REAL CLEAR POLICY
How America’s Democratic Foundation Promotes Innovation and U.S. Security

The legal apparatus in place to protect innovators is paramount for protecting America's culture of innovation and its place at the forefront in creating new technologies. 

REAL CLEAR POLICY
Restore Injunctive Relief to Keep American Innovation Alive

A new study finds that two centuries of U.S. innovation leadership is faltering because of judges’ rulings that allow infringers to keep benefiting commercially from purloined inventions.

ECONOMIC STANDARD
The Piracy Website-Blocking Solution

Global piracy affects the livelihoods of millions of people. It steals from those holding U.S. jobs in film and TV. Under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it’s costly and time-consuming to fight piracy.

ECONOMIC STANDARD
Breaking the Law

The wildly successful, innovation-fostering Bayh-Dole contains no reference to prices of eventual products in connection with the law’s march-in provision or anything else.

FEDERALIST SOCIETY
Legislative Lessons from Cutting Procedural Corners

Several lawmakers with experience and expertise in IP spotted reasons for concern with PAPA. PAPA was being fast-tracked, taking a leap away from the Founders’ democratized, merit-based patent system.

WASHINGTON TIMES
Biden Risks Cutting-Edge Drugs

March-in introduces extensive uncertainty about patents remaining exclusive for product development and commercialization efforts using private investment dollars.

REAL CLEAR POLICY
IP Rights in a Changing World

The Global Innovation Policy Center’s new IP principles espouse the importance of IP for America’s innovation, security and prosperity. 

IEEE-USA INSIGHT
Patent Bills Pros and Cons

Two bipartisan bills would restore some patent reliability. Other legislation introduced or seeking a sponsor threatens to reduce patent reliability and America’s global leadership in innovation versus China. 

ECONOMIC STANDARD
No Quiet Title for Innovators

Quiet title is essential to property rights—whether land where the EPA asserts unconstitutionally broad “navigable waters” regulations or by unfair eminent domain.

REAL CLEAR POLICY
Handing China Innovation Leadership

The EC 's regulatory framework hampers standard-essential patents. The regulatory train wreck will harm U.S. and European innovators and help China's competitiveness.

CPR's James Edwards greets Coke Morgan Stewart, deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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