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Innovation Act: Much-Needed Patent Litigation Reform While Protecting IP Rights
The United States rightfully maintains the world's strongest system of intellectual property (IP) protections, including patent,...
Mar 13, 2015
Free-Market Groups Support House Patent Reform Legislation
On behalf of the undersigned free-market organizations, we write to express our strong support for your committee’s ongoing efforts on...
Mar 12, 2015
Statement of Matthew Shay, President & CEO of the National Retail Federation, on STRONG Patents Act
“We appreciate the continued interest by Congress in addressing the issue of patent trolls. However, the legislation introduced by...
Mar 5, 2015
Academic Letter to Congress Asking for Patent Reform
To Members of the United States of Congress: We, the undersigned, are economics and legal scholars who study innovation, intellectual...
Mar 2, 2015
Op-Ed: Patent trolls threaten R.I. grocers
For most of our nation’s history, grocery stores have been a staple along main streets across the country — ranging from the small...
Feb 27, 2015
Statement on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing Examining Patent Demand Letters
WASHINGTON — The following statement can be attributed to Chris Polychron, president of the National Association of REALTORS®: “We are...
Feb 26, 2015
The FTC should release an interim report to help patent reform
Patent reform is appropriately a critical priority for the 114th Congress. Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.)...
Feb 25, 2015
Patent troll targets crowdfunding startups — Innovation Act could stop that
On Thursday, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) re-introduced the Innovation Act, a bipartisan bill targeted at fixing the...
Feb 19, 2015
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