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Aug 28, 2024
Don’t Throw Out 40 Years of Innovation by Dismantling IP Protections
While the 1980s is best remembered for its questionable fashion and cultural influence, two critical policies from early in the decade...
Feb 13, 2024
Biden's Attempts to Lower Drug Costs Are Sabotaging Biosimilar Competition and Are Destined For Failure
The FDA approved 55 new drugs in 2023 — up substantially from 2022's 37 approvals, and barely behind the all-time record of 59 set in...
Jan 31, 2024
The Biden administration should not support a WTO petition to strip IP protections from Covid-19 treatments
The Biden administration may soon double down on one of its gravest mistakes. In 2022, it supported a petition before the World Trade...
Jan 28, 2024
The Bayh-Dole Act works. It’s not time to change it.
Forty-three years ago, a young U.S. Sen. Joe Biden voted for a transformative policy reform that subsequently catalyzed upwards of $2...
Jan 26, 2024
Biden Administration’s Threat to Pharmaceutical Innovation Endangers Lives
The idea that the government could forcibly seize ownership of a groundbreaking invention you created is chilling. But that is the...
Jan 25, 2024
Biden's Bayh-Dole Act proposal misuses 'march-in rights'
The Biden administration may soon gut the Bayh-Dole Act, one of our nation's most important and impactful laws that also supports nearly...
Jan 25, 2024
Medicare prescription price controls will hurt seniors
The inflationary spiral that drove prices up during the first years of the Biden administration has ended. That’s the good news. The bad...
Jan 23, 2024
Protect Future Discoveries By Rejecting The TRIPS Patent Waiver
Investment in U.S. biotechnology could be about to plummet, with major implications for future innovation. It all depends on the outcome...
Jan 22, 2024
Breaking the Law That Led to 7,739 Patents and 1,000 Startups in 2022 Alone
The Biden administration is out to break the law. It’s proposed a framework for federal agencies to impose “march-in” rights on patented...
Jan 21, 2024
A patent waiver is a bad deal for WA
If Washington state were a country, it would be the 26th-largest economy in the world. Last year, our economic output reached more than...
Jan 19, 2024
Biden Administration Policy Jeopardizes The System That Gave Us Gene Editing
The FDA just approved the first drug based on CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technology. The medication treats sickle cell...
Jan 18, 2024
Price Fixing Never Works
Government is a terrible allocator of resources and equally bad at interfering with free markets. A great example is the ham-handed way...
Jan 18, 2024
Don't let geopolitics erode America's research engine
Patents and other intellectual property rights are at the heart of American innovation, and enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Right now...
Jan 14, 2024
President Biden’s domestic technology seizure plan
Last month, the Biden administration released a radical proposal that — if finalized — would decimate American innovation across the most...
Jan 11, 2024
New patent proposal would kill innovation across industries
As the 2024 general election nears, President Joe Biden is making dramatic policy announcements in an effort to energize the voter base....
Jan 9, 2024
White House’s Drug Patent Plan Undercuts Research and Innovation
On Dec. 7, the White House announced a plan it claims will lower prescription drug costs. It centers on using a 43-year-old law—the...
Jan 8, 2024
Biden’s plan to reduce drug prices will damage innovation
Last month, the Biden administration issued a proposal that could be very damaging to American innovation. The plan would empower the...
Jan 8, 2024
IRA's impact on medical innovation
The debate over drug price negotiation policies, particularly those in the Inflation Reduction Act, has become the centerpiece of...
Jan 7, 2024
‘March-in rights’ are part of Biden’s march toward socialized medicine
President Joe Biden has crossed the line from ill-advised policy to government theft of intellectual property in the White House’s latest...
Jan 5, 2024
Biden voted for the Bayh-Dole Act 44 years ago – but the administration’s plans to reinterpret it could undermine decades of world-leading U.S. innovation
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) could soon become even bigger innovation hubs, thanks to measures advanced by...
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