Posts Tagged: "This Week in Washington IP"

This week in Washington IP events, in Congress, the House of Representatives holds a joint subcommittee hearing on shoring up cybersecurity in the U.S. research enterprise. Over in the Senate, the Judiciary Committee will consider the nomination of Judge Lucy Koh to sit on the Ninth Circuit, while the Rules Committee will convene for an oversight hearing on the modernization efforts underway at the Library of Congress, including the U.S. Copyright Office. Elsewhere, CSIS opens the week with a conversation with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, who has played an important role in shaping the United States’ stance on the proposed TRIPS waiver, and ITIF will explore a potential third update to the WTO’s International Trade Agreement to facilitate trade for a large number of new information technologies.

This week in Washington IP events, the House Consumer Protection Subcommittee within the Energy & Commerce Committee will explore the rapidly expanding landscape for name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights for college athletes, while the Consumer Protection Subcommittee within the House Committee on Financial Services takes a look at technologies that are reshaping the U.S. banking system. The Senate Commerce Committee will also convene a hearing this week looking at consumer data privacy, especially the $1 billion earmarked in the $3.5 trillion House spending plan for the creation of a privacy bureau within the Federal Trade Commission. Elsewhere, The Brookings Institution hosts a discussion on regulating cryptocurrencies, the USPTO gives its second quarterly update on developments in Chinese IP Law, and the Center for Strategic & International Studies closes the week with a recap of developments during the inaugural U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council scheduled for this week.

This week in Washington IP news, various committees at the House of Representatives will meet to discuss the future of NASA’s activities in low-earth orbit, efforts to advance earth system science at NOAA and preserving consumer rights to access personal financial data. Over in the Senate, the Antitrust Subcommittee will follow up on the Federal Trade Commission’s recent activities to rein in anticompetitive behaviors in the high-tech industry. Elsewhere, the Hudson Institute explores what effective copyright protection should look like at this point of the digital age, and the Center for Strategic & International Studies focuses on ways to ensure that U.S. technological competitiveness continues to effectively address national security concerns.

This week in Washington IP events, both houses of Congress are mainly quiet this week except for an executive business meeting hosted by the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss a pair of bills, including one that would protect venue choices by state attorneys general who have brought antitrust actions against Big Tech firms like Google. Elsewhere, New America discusses efforts to build digital public infrastructure to address access concerns raised during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Atlantic Council explores advances in data collection and technological developments that can help the scientific community gain a better understanding of the world’s oceans to address social problems like climate change.

This week in Washington IP news, the House of Representatives remains quiet as it enters a scheduled district work period. However, several Senate committees will host hearings and business meetings, including the Senate Energy Committee which will discuss pending nominations to important science roles within the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Senate Homeland Security Committee which will explore several bills related to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity matters. Elsewhere, the American Enterprise Institute takes a look at the Federal Reserve’s efforts to establish a digital U.S. dollar, while the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will hold its most recent quarterly meeting of the Patent Public Advisory Committee this Thursday. 

This week in Washington IP news, the U.S. Senate will vote on Tiffany Cunningham’s confirmation to the Federal Circuit, replacing Judge Evan Wallach; and a pair of committees in the House of Representatives, as well as the Senate Energy Committee, explore avenues that federal lawmakers have to stop the scourge of cyberattacks and ransomware impacting our nation’s infrastructure. The House Science Committee will also hold a hearing to discuss wireless spectrum needs for U.S. earth and space science research. Elsewhere, The Heritage Foundation hosts an event on restoring American leadership in patent law with Former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Retired Federal Circuit Chief Judge Paul Michel, and The Brookings Institution focuses on possible frameworks to replace the invalidated EU-U.S. Privacy Shield for cross-border data flows.

This week in Washington IP news, committees in the House of Representatives will host several hearings related to appropriations for various agencies under the jurisdiction of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, as well as the use of facial recognition technologies by federal law enforcement and programs at the U.S. Small Business Administration funding commercialization of emerging new technologies. In the Senate, the Antitrust Subcommittee will host a hearing on Tuesday to explore anticompetitive practices in the pharmaceutical industry, including pay-for-delay agreements that prevent the market entry of generics. Elsewhere, The Brookings Institution looks at recent legislation to support regional tech hubs across America, and the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation discusses a new report on ways the U.S. federal government can support quantum computing research and development.

This week Washington IP news, the Senate remains quiet on Capitol Hill but several committee hearings in the House of Representatives will explore the state of federally-funded wildland fire science, millennials turning to cryptocurrency investments for gaining financial independence, and legislative efforts to reduce emissions in the energy industry as well as securing U.S. communication networks. Elsewhere, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation explores manufacturing priorities under the Biden Administration and a new framework for international antitrust regulation at the World Trade Organization, while Hudson Institute hosts an event looking at the overlap between antitrust and intellectual property issues.

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee hosts a hearing on Tuesday afternoon regarding efforts to improve “patent quality”, a buzzword that has closely followed the patent reform debate for more than a decade, while the Senate Aviation Subcommittee on Wednesday explores changes to the country’s aviation infrastructure to accommodate air travel innovations of the 21st century. Over in the House of Representatives, the House Judiciary Committee hosts a markup session Wednesday morning to consider several bills being advanced to increase antitrust regulation on Big Tech, and the House Rural Development Subcommittee debates ways to improve access to the SBIR and STTR research and development funding programs for rural and underserved businesses. Elsewhere, the Center for Strategic & International Studies takes a look at areas for cooperation between the U.S. and South Korea for securing critical tech supply chains, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday afternoon will look at myths involving patents and econm

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Antitrust Committee looks at anti-competition issues in the smart home electronics industry, while the full Senate Judiciary Committee meets later in the week to discuss the nomination of Tiffany Cunningham to join the Federal Circuit bench. In the House of Representatives, committee hearings will focus on incorporating central bank digital currencies into the nation’s financial system, ways to improve small business prospects through improved broadband infrastructure and the future role of the Federal Aviation Administration in the commercial spaceflight sector. Elsewhere, Hudson Institute hosts an event on patents and innovation policy moderated by former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, and the USPTO celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Lanham Act’s passage, which codified trademark law into federal statute. 

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate is set to pass the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, including a controversial amendment to the Endless Frontier Act on recordation of patent ownership; subcommittee hearings at the House of Representatives discuss the potential benefits to science and technology of a national “oceanshot” as well as ways that federal funding can be used to benefit regional tech hubs outside of traditional innovation centers. Among policy institutes, the Hudson Institute explores what the archiving of the 2020 update to the 2015 Business Review Letter to the IEEE means for antitrust enforcement of standards-essential patents, the Center for Strategic & International Studies looks at misunderstandings about march-in rights under Bayh-Dole related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a book club at New America focuses on an anti-patent narrative translating the story of Robin Hood to the world of branded pharmaceuticals.

This week in Washington IP news, both houses of Congress remain quiet as the Senate and the House of Representatives enter scheduled work periods. Among policy institutes, however, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation explores the impacts of “deepfakes” and disinformation on democratic processes, and hosts its seventh Dynamic Antitrust event, which looks at how antitrust regulators can better incorporate the realities of innovation into enforcement activities. The Brookings Institution will look at the positive and negative aspects of President Biden’s recent $100 billion proposal to build out broadband infrastructure across the U.S. Finally, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will host its first public roundtable on the agency’s plans to implement the Trademark Modernization Act, and agency historian Adam Bisno will host a webinar looking at licensing activities surrounding the first issued U.S. patent.

This week in Washington IP news, labor subcommittees in both the House and the Senate will review President Joe Biden’s discretionary funding request for the National Institutes of Health during the 2022 fiscal year. Other hearings in the House of Representatives will explore the science and energy research enterprise in the U.S. Department of Energy and ways that the federal government can improve security in software supply chains following the SolarWinds data breach last year. Elsewhere, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation looks at the role that intellectual property rights have played in supporting investments in R&D for developing COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, while both the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute explore what lies ahead in the coming months regarding reform of Section 230 immunities for online platforms.

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate remains largely quiet on IP-related matters, although Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) will make a keynote address at one of two Brookings Institution events this week focused on artificial intelligence. In the House of Representatives, Tuesday morning will feature what is likely to be a contentious hearing with AbbVie CEO Richard Gonzalez testifying before the House Oversight Committee on that company’s efforts to maintain exclusivity over its blockbuster drug, Humira. Other House committee hearings will explore the potential benefits and problems with automotive technologies, as well as Biden Administration discretionary budget requests for NASA and the Department of Defense. Elsewhere, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation explores the prospects for federal research, design and development expenditures in the fiscal year 2022 budget, while the Hudson Institute explores threats to U.S. dominance in both the semiconductor and advanced battery industries.

This week in Washington IP news, committees at the House of Representatives will convene hearings on several topics related to technological innovation, including the CLEAN Future Act’s clean energy and sustainability accelerator, recent impacts of the SBIR and STTR small business grant-funding programs for R&D, as well as the Government Accountability Office’s recent report on lagging cybersecurity protocols within the U.S. Department of Defense. Elsewhere, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation reviews a recently proposed bill that would create a nonprofit foundation to facilitate the goals of the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Center for Strategic & International Studies hosts events on evaluating the FASTER legislative proposal for accelerating innovation through tech transfer and the NSCAI’s recent report on maintaining dominance in AI development over foreign rivals.