Search for: "Thom Tillis" Results 301 - 320 of 564
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
28 Mar 2022, 8:58 pm by Patent Docs
By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (at right) to express their "grave concerns with the so called 'compromise' agreement to waive global intellectual property protections for Covid-19 vaccines. [read post]
18 Apr 2022, 1:15 pm by Gene Quinn
” It includes input from Priti Krishtel of the Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge (I-MAK)—which recently has been the subject of scrutiny by pro-patent lawmakers like Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC)—and Charles Duan, who has testified to Congress that patents deter genetic research and “bully and suppress true innovators. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 2:15 pm by Eileen McDermott
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) yesterday led a hearing of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property titled “Fraudulent Trademarks: How They Undermine the Trademark System and Harm American Consumers and Businesses. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 8:36 am by Steve Brachmann
House of Representatives passes the SBIR and STTR Extension Act to extend those two seed funding programs through fiscal year 2025; Micron announces a 50 percent reduction in wafer fab equipment capital expenditures to address high chip inventory issues; and Senator Chris Coons announces that he will co-sponsor Senator Thom Tillis’ patent eligibility act. [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 9:15 am by Eileen McDermott
A discussion draft of the DMCA reform bill was released on December 22 by Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Thom Tillis (R-NC), and was meant to solicit comments from stakeholders and other interested parties. [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 12:13 pm by Eileen McDermott
In June of this year, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal replied to a late April request by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) for answers to a number of questions surrounding abuse of the inter partes review (IPR) system, explaining that she was working on the problem. [read post]
21 May 2020, 9:15 am by IPWatchdog
Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Ben Sasse (R-NE) sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher Krebs regarding a notice issued last week by their agencies alerting American companies and research institutions about attempted attacks by hackers affiliated with the Chinese government. [read post]
19 Oct 2021, 2:15 pm by Eileen McDermott
The hearing included testimony from four witnesses on the topic of the PPOA introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) in September. [read post]
16 Nov 2023, 4:15 am by Eli Mazour
I was repeatedly reminded of this over the last few months listening to discussions about using AI for patent practice and Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons’ (D-DE) latest effort to fix the patent eligibility mess (via the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) of 2023). [read post]
22 Feb 2024, 3:50 pm by Eileen McDermott
A bipartisan group of 28 members of congress, including Senate IP Subcommittee Chair Chris Coons (D-DE), Ranking Member Thom Tillis (R-NC) and House IP Subcommittee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA), sent a letter yesterday to President Biden urging the administration to reconsider its December proposal to allow agencies to consider pricing in deciding whether and when to “march in” on patent rights. [read post]
22 Feb 2024, 3:50 pm by Eileen McDermott
A bipartisan group of 28 members of congress, including Senate IP Subcommittee Chair Chris Coons (D-DE), Ranking Member Thom Tillis (R-NC) and House IP Subcommittee Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA), sent a letter yesterday to President Biden urging the administration to reconsider its December proposal to allow agencies to consider pricing in deciding whether and when to “march in” on patent rights. [read post]
23 Oct 2021, 9:16 pm by Patent Docs
Rader, former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, and Brad Watts, Minority Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee for Ranking Member Senator Thom Tillis, as well as noted academic patent scholars (Colleen Chien, Jorge Contreras, Thomas Cotter, Hugh Hansen,... [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 2:15 pm by Eileen McDermott
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) yesterday led a hearing of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property titled “Fraudulent Trademarks: How They Undermine the Trademark System and Harm American Consumers and Businesses. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 4:15 am by Eileen McDermott
Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Representatives Ben Cline (R-VA), Martha Roby (R-AL), Theodore Deutch (R-FL) and Harley Rouda (D-CA) sent a letter to ALI stating that laws created through federal statute like copyright are “ill-suited for treatment in a Restatement” and threaten to muddle the law. [read post]
2 Jul 2023, 9:15 am by Michael Cicero
On June 22, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act ("PERA") of 2023. [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 4:15 am by IPWatchdog
Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Representatives Mark Takano (D-CA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Office of Technology Assessment Improvement and Enhancement Act, which if enacted would introduce enhancements to the existing Office of Technology Assessment statute codified at 2 U.S.C. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 8:36 am by Steve Brachmann
House of Representatives passes the SBIR and STTR Extension Act to extend those two seed funding programs through fiscal year 2025; Micron announces a 50 percent reduction in wafer fab equipment capital expenditures to address high chip inventory issues; and Senator Chris Coons announces that he will co-sponsor Senator Thom Tillis’ patent eligibility act. [read post]
16 Nov 2023, 4:15 am by Eli Mazour
I was repeatedly reminded of this over the last few months listening to discussions about using AI for patent practice and Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons’ (D-DE) latest effort to fix the patent eligibility mess (via the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) of 2023). [read post]
13 May 2022, 11:15 am by Steve Brachmann
This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senator Josh Hawley introduces a bill that would retroactively limit copyright terms to a single 28-year term with the possibility of one 28-year extension; the Federal Circuit reverses a Northern California summary judgment ruling of noninfringement after finding that the district court improperly defined the claim term “buffer”; SoftBank’s Vision Fund posts a $20 billion loss for the 2021 fiscal year; Senators Thom Tillis… [read post]