The Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has just released the sixth edition of its International IP Index. Unfortunately, the report finds that the United […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Scholars File Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Fix Section 101
On December 4, 2017, CPIP Founder Adam Mossoff and CPIP John F. Witherspoon Legal Fellow David Lund filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in RecogniCorp. […]
[Archived Post] The PTAB’s Regulatory Overreach and How it Cripples the Innovation Economy
On August 14, 2017, the Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society published a new white paper, Crippling the Innovation Economy: Regulatory Overreach at the Patent Office. This white paper […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Affiliate Scholar Erika Lietzan Testifies at HJC Hearing on FDA Approval Process
On July 27, 2017, CPIP Affiliate Scholar and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri–Columbia Erika Lietzan testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial […]
[Archived Post] The STRONGER Patents Act: Important Legislation to Protect Our Innovation Economy
Today, Senators Chris Coons, Tom Cotton, Dick Durbin, and Mazie Hirono introduced the Support Technology & Research for Our Nation’s Growth and Economic Resilience (STRONGER) Patents Act of 2017. This […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Co-Founder Testifies at House Judiciary Committee Hearing on IP
CPIP co-founder Adam Mossoff testified on June 13 before the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet. He and other witnesses testified about the impact […]
[Archived Post] An Ever-Weakening Patent System is Threatening the Future of American Innovation
Over the past ten years, the United States patent system has been transformed by new legislation, regulatory actions, and numerous decisions by the Supreme Court addressing nearly every area of […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Publishes Prof. John F. Witherspoon’s Tribute to the Late Judge Giles S. Rich
CPIP has published a tribute to Judge Giles S. Rich by Professor John F. Witherspoon. Prof. Witherspoon is Director Emeritus, Intellectual Property Program, Antonin Scalia Law School. Prof. Witherspoon’s career […]
[Archived Post] Innovate4Health: Global Good’s “Arktek”: A Life-Saving Super-Thermos Vaccine Cooler
This post is one of a series in the #Innovate4Health policy research initiative. By Bhamati Viswanathan More than 1.5 million children die every year from diseases that existing vaccines could […]
[Archived Post] CPIP Scholars File Amicus Brief Urging Consideration of Claimed Inventions as a Whole
By David Lund Last week, CPIP Senior Scholar Adam Mossoff and I filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 law professors, including CPIP’s Devlin Hartline, Chris Holman, Sean O’Connor, Kristen Osenga, […]