"...we encourage the Subcommittee to monitor and support the #USPTO's continued progress while advancing policies that strengthen the reliability and effectiveness of the U.S. #intellectualproperty system."

Read our full letter to the Senate Judiciary #IP Subcommittee:

🗞️ #ICYMI, check out this article in The National Interest by David Kappos, C4IP co-chair and former #USPTO director, and Mark Cohen, China policy scholar.

In it, they warn that #China is strengthening its #IP system as the #UnitedStates retreats from its historic role as an IP champion.

Read it:

"The indispensable #IP rights we put into circulation drives #innovation, job creation, American competitiveness, and hard dollar #investment."

- #USPTO Director John Squires, speaking at USC Gould School of Law's recent conference on U.S. IP and #tech leadership

Read his full remarks:

A new Voice of IP profile by Eli Mazour looks back at C4IP President and CEO Coke Morgan Stewart's tenure as Acting Director and Deputy Director at the #USPTO, including her work on #patent examination, the application backlog, and #PTAB proceedings.

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❌ Myth: Requiring requesters to identify themselves to the #USPTO would eliminate anonymous ex parte reexamination requests.

✅ The USPTO's proposal would allow requester identities and information about real parties in interest to remain confidential from the public and #patent owner.

For more:

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At the 2026 Via Bridge Summit on October 5-9 in San Francisco, #C4IP Co-Chair and former #USPTO Director Andrei Iancu will deliver a keynote address.

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Strong #patent rights require meaningful enforcement. #USPTO Director John Squires knows what's at stake.

Earlier this year, the USPTO joined the #JusticeDepartment in filing a SOI that reaffirms the need for #injunctions as a vital safeguard against patent infringement.

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This article perpetuates the claim that so-called "patent thickets" delay competition.

But the data doesn't support their existence.

According to the #USPTO, there is no evidence that the number of #patents covering a #medicine affects the timing of #generic and #biosimilar entry.

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"[Former USPTO Director David Kappos] explained that the entirely fee-funded #USPTO needs flexibility to maintain reserves, modernize #technology, and sustain examiner hiring through downturns and funding lapses."

Read more about the USPTO's fee-setting authority ⬇️

The #USPTO's Office of the Commissioner for #Trademarks recently hosted a webinar, as part of the agency's #America250 programming, exploring how trademarks have helped shape #American #commerce and identity across the nation's history.

Couldn't catch it live? Watch the recording ⬇️

📆 Hear from two women #inventors -- Lisa Lloyd and Christine Sanni -- at the #USPTO's upcoming Women's Equality Day event.

On September 15 from 1-2 PM ET, the free virtual program will recognize the generations of #women whose ideas have shaped America's #innovation ecosystem.

Register:

#ICYMI, C4IP announced that Coke Morgan Stewart, former #USPTO acting director, has joined the organization as President & CEO.

Stewart's appointment marks an important new chapter for C4IP as it expands its reach and advocacy for strong and secure #IP rights.

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