CONSERVATIVES FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS

Copyright/Patent/Trademark

P Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including institution of proceedings, Fintiv/NHK and related procedures Patent-eligible subject matter Injunctive relief against patent infringers Standard Essential Royalty Act, to establish a patent licensing royalty rate-setting judicial panel disadvantageous to patent owners and favorable to patent infringers H.R. 3535 (Advancing Americas Interest Act) to disadvantageously change U.S. firms access to and treatment before the U.S. International Trade Commission when seeking Section 337 remedies blocking importation of U.S. patent-infringing goods S. 2321/H.R. 5893 (Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations, FY24) report language to erect barriers to Sec. 337 USITC remedies to block importation of U.S. patent-infringing goods Proposals to misuse Bayh-Dole Acts march-in against patent ownership rights based on product price Unilateral changes to Dept. of Energy funding agreements requiring headquarters review of any licensing agreement, undermining the Bayh-Dole Act Comments on Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights (Docket No. PTO-P-2022-0025) Request for Comments Regarding Joint USPTO-FDA Collaboration Initiatives (Docket No. PTO-P-2022-0037) Federal position on proposal at World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property protections due under Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement with regard to COVID-19-related inventions Comments on U.S. International Trade Commission Investigation No. 332-596, COVID-19 Diagnostics and Therapeutics: Supply, Demand, and TRIPS Agreement Flexibilities Comments on advance notice of proposed rulemaking, Changes Under Consideration to Discretionary Institution Practices, Petition Word-Count Limits, and Settlement Practices for America Invents Act Trial Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Docket No. PTO-P-2020-0022) S. 2220/H.R. 4370 (Promoting and Respecting Economically Vital American Innovation Leadership (PREVAIL) Act) Comments related to National Institutes of Health, Workshop on Transforming Discoveries into Products: Maximizing NIHs Levers to Catalyze Technology Transfer S. 2140 (Patent Eligibility Restoration Act) Mandatory customer stay that deprives patent owners of the ability to enforce their patent rights against all parties such as through injunctive relief and that would unfairly protect direct and contributory patent infringers, including large retail corporations Defending American Patents Act, which would punish U.S. patent owners with the loss of six years of patent protection for asserting their patent in a foreign court against an American patent infringer H.R. 5475 (Preventing Adversarial Patents Act), which would radically change from the hallmark of merit-based U.S. patent issuance, by adding denial or unenforceability of patents based on certain characteristics of the patentee Comments on U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, Joint Collaboration Initiative Regarding Standards (Docket No. PTO-C-2023-0034) Digital copyright piracy, site-blocking injunction National Institute of Standards and Technology, Request for Information Regarding the Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights (Docket No. NIST-2023-0008) Comments to U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, regarding WIPO IGC Negotiations on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (Docket No.: PTO-C-2023-0019) H.R. 7476 (Countering Communist China Act) intellectual property provisions