#PERA would 'give confidence to creators in such areas as artificial intelligence and 5G technology,' writes Council for Innovation Promotion ED Frank Cullen in this InsideSources piece.

Let's pass PERA to make the most of these new technologies!
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'As we face unprecedented challenges from foreign adversaries and competitors... we cannot afford to reverse course and abandon BayhDole as proposed by the Draft Framework.' 👏 👏

Rep. Vern Buchanan Sen. Marsha Blackburn Senator Thom Tillis Rep. Adrian Smith
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'Because of these widespread misperceptions, many activists and some policymakers believe that weakening patent protections would make drugs more accessible to patients. This could not be further from the truth.'
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The lack of reliable #IP protections is starving #startups of venture capital funding, writes fmr. federal judge Paul Michel in RealClearMarkets.

That's bad news, because '[h]istorically, startups created a disproportionate share of new technologies':
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'[A] series of court decisions and pieces of legislation over the last two decades has weakened IP rights in the United States... China, in contrast, has spent decades strengthening IP protections.'

Read CSIS Renewing American Innovation Project's new analysis 👇
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'[T]he inherent ambiguity of decisions like Alice and Mayo put lower courts into an impossible position — and the costs to innovation and the economy continue to mount.'

In The Hill, 2 retired judges weighed in on the need to pass #PERA : buff.ly/3TDHZd2

In our letter to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Judiciary Republicans, we debunked anti-patent myths such as 'evergreening' and 'patent thickets.'

Council for Innovation Promotion's explainer has even more info about the truth behind these harmful narratives ⬇️
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In recent years, tech innovators like #VLSI and #Centripetal have been disadvantaged by #PTAB proceedings that favor large incumbents. That wouldn't have been the case if the #PREVAIL Act had been in effect.

Learn more in our Executive Overview 👇
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Anti- #patent advocates have spread the MYTH that #PERA would automatically make certain classes of inventions patentable.

Learn the truth behind this myth and more in Council for Innovation Promotion's Myths vs. Facts page: buff.ly/3WJ7sUq

Small innovators suffer the most when venues like #PTAB make it easy for large companies with lots of resources to invalidate their competitors' patents.

We need to pass reforms like #PREVAIL to make innovation accessible to everyone.

'The proposal also invites larger competitors of a startup or young company licensee to step forward, challenge a product's price, and offer to replace the startup.'

Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs's Bob Taylor explains why misusing march-in would devastate U.S. #startups : buff.ly/4aSGA85

'[M]any activists and some policymakers believe that weakening patent protections would make drugs more accessible to patients. This could not be further from the truth.'

Read our letter to Senator Dick Durbin & Lindsey Graham:
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'[T]he NIST proposal to invoke federal march-in rights at the government’s discretion to address what it deems to be unfair market prices would pose a self-inflicted harm on a key foundation of American innovation.' CSIS Renewing American Innovation Project
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Why pass #PERA ? 'The net effect of PERA is to strike a decade of judicial tinkering that has needlessly turned the question of patent eligibility into a confusing mess, and harmed the U.S. versus our economic competitors.'

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If you or someone you know is traveling by plane this holiday weekend, you'll be benefiting from a #patent that's nearly 120 years old! ✈️

Imagine how our world would look if we hadn't had the foresight to protect the Wright Bros' #invention .

In an increasingly high-tech and competitive global economy, the U.S. needs new ways to promote innovation.

Fmr. @USPTO Deputy Director Laura Peter's solution? Teach kids about #IP .

Read her piece in The Daily Signal: buff.ly/47h4xVi

'Efforts to weaken intellectual property rights that lead to weakening the current U.S. #innovation system may encourage talented inventors to migrate to other countries,' warns CSIS Renewing American Innovation Project about the Biden admin's march-in proposal.

Read 👇
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During Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee Senate Judiciary Republicans hearing on drug pricing, senators vilified patent owners for using 'evergreening' and 'patent thicketing' to abuse IP protections.

However, those alleged practices are actually MYTHS. ❌ Learn more: buff.ly/4bQ6Lgj

Strengthening U.S. national security requires empowering our inventors to compete with foreign companies. And we need strong, reliable #patent rights to achieve that, writes fmr. USPTO Director Andrei Iancu in The Hill:
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'The possibility of inconsistent results between [ #PTAB and court] serves to undermine public confidence in the patent system overall...A weakened patent system means that we all lose from innovations that will never be made and new #startups that will never be founded.'