This Week in Washington IP: Marking Up the American Music Fairness Act, Licensing Patents in the Internet of Things, and Exploring Chinese Patent Licensing and Enforcement Policies - IPWatchdog.com

This week successful Washington IP quality and events, the House Judiciary Committee convenes a proceeding Wednesday day to people up a caller copyright measure that would necessitate AM/FM vigor stations to wage copyright royalties to euphony creators. Over successful the Senate, the Agriculture Committee explores the probe and innovation programs that could beryllium funded done the adjacent iteration of the Farm Bill that volition walk Congress adjacent year. Elsewhere, the Hudson Institute pushes backmost connected misguided claims that patent licensing volition forestall innovation successful the Internet of Things, portion the Center for Strategic & International Studies invites USC Gould School of Law Professor Jonathan Barnett for a treatment connected patent licensing and enforcement policies successful the People’s Republic of China.

Monday, December 5 

Hudson Institute

Licensing and the Internet of Things

At 10:00 AM connected Monday, online video webinar.

The improvement of caller and incredibly invaluable technologies often spurs a batch of misguided arguments that the request to respect patent rights someway gets successful the mode of implementing caller technologies. With the Internet of Things (IoT) expected to scope $650.5 cardinal USD by the twelvemonth 2026, present is simply a captious clip to propulsion backmost connected spurious claims that a increasing fig of patent rights someway hinders innovation. This lawsuit volition diagnostic a treatment with a sheet including Bowman Heiden, Director, Center for Intellectual Property, Executive Director, Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital, UC-Berkeley; Monica Magnusson, Vice President, IPR Policy astatine IPR & Licensing, Ericsson; Richard Varey, Partner, Bird & Bird; and moderated by Adam Mossoff, Chair, Forum for Intellectual Property and Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute. 

Brookings Institution

Unpacking the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

At 2:00 PM connected Monday astatine Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036.

In aboriginal October, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a blueprint for an artificial quality (AI) Bill of Rights, which supports a bid of guiding principles that OSTP advocates for the improvement and deployment of automated systems. However, determination is simply a bully woody of disorder surrounding however OSTP’s blueprint volition beryllium adopted by backstage companies and nationalist institutions and however the blueprint could beryllium enforced against companies who willfully usage AI systems successful discriminatory ways. This lawsuit volition diagnostic a treatment with a sheet including Harlan Yu, Executive Director, Upturn; Alex Engler, Fellow, Governance Studies; Jerome Greco, Digital Forensics Supervising Attorney, The Legal Aid Society; Sorelle Friedler, Assistant Director for Data and Democracy, White House OSTP; and moderated by Nicol Turner Lee, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, and Director, Center for Technology Innovation.

Tuesday, December 6

Senate Committee connected Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry

Farm Bill 2023: Research Programs

At 10:00 AM connected Tuesday successful 328A Russell Senate Office Building.

The omnibus agriculture and nutrition legislative bundle known arsenic the Farm Bill is up for reauthorization successful 2023, giving Congress the quality to reassess assorted probe programs sponsored done the legislation. Under the 2018 version of the Farm Bill, precedence areas for probe backing included agriculture technology, bioenergy, carnal wellness and works health. The sole witnesser connected the archetypal sheet appearing astatine this proceeding volition beryllium the Honorable Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Witnesses connected the hearing’s 2nd sheet volition see Dr. Jason Rowntree, CS Mott Chair of Sustainable Agriculture, Director, MSU Center for Regenerative Agriculture, and Professor, Michigan State University; Dr. Felecia Nave, President, Alcorn State University; Dr. Katy Rainey, Associate Professor, Purdue Soybean Center, Purdue University; Steve Ela, Partner and Manager, Ela Family Farms; and Dr. Deacue Fields, Vice President for Agriculture, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

Center for Strategic & International Studies 

Inclusive Innovation: Challenges and Paths Forward

At 11:30 AM connected Tuesday, online video webinar.

In caller years, advocates for the United States’ innovation system person called for a higher grade of inclusivity among groups who are traditionally underrepresented among America’s inventor class. Addressing endowment gaps successful the American workforce to guarantee that a wider grade of the country’s colonisation is capable to prosecute their originative ideas, which yet benefits nine erstwhile a wider grade of invention tin beryllium reduced to signifier by a much divers excavation of creators. A archetypal sheet astatine this lawsuit focused connected the challenges of inclusion volition diagnostic a treatment with Dr. Almesha Campbell, Assistant Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Jackson State University, and AUTM Chair-Elect; Dr. Catherine Ashcraft, Director of Research, National Center for Women & Information Technology; Victor Hwang, Founder and CEO, Right to Start; and moderated by Tom Guevara, Director, Indiana University Public Policy Institute, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. A 2nd sheet focused connected patenting arsenic an inclusive innovation strategy volition diagnostic a treatment with Dr. John Miller, Senior Corporate Counsel, Pfizer; Barbara Fiacco, Partner and Co-Chair of the Patent Litigation Practice, Foley Hoag LLP; Dr. Michelle Saksena, Senior Research Economist, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; and moderated by Andrei Iancu, Former Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Senior Advisor, CSIS.

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation 

How AR/VR Can Revolutionize the Way Businesses Market and Sell Products

At 12:00 PM connected Tuesday, online video webinar.

As mobile devices proceed to beforehand successful capabilities, augmented world (AR) and virtual world (VR) immersive experiences are progressively being leveraged by companies looking to pull the attraction of consumers. However, the commercialized usage of AR/VR technologies raises assorted ineligible questions surrounding licensing the intelligence spot rights to those technologies and the usage of backstage user information collected by AR/VR systems. This lawsuit volition diagnostic a treatment with a sheet including Will Duffield, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; Ugonma Nwankwo, Senior Associate, Global Counsel; and moderated by Juan Londoño, Policy Analyst, ITIF.

Wednesday, December 7

House Committee connected the Judiciary

Legislative Markup Session

At 2:00 PM connected Wednesday successful 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House Judiciary Committee volition convene a gathering to markup respective projected pieces of authorities including H.R. 4130, the American Music Fairness Act. If passed into law, the measure would amend Title 17 of U.S. Code to necessitate AM/FM vigor stations earning much than $1.5 cardinal successful yearly revenues to wage royalties for playing euphony implicit the air. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has submitted an amendment successful the quality of a substitute to the bill.

Thursday, December 8

Center for Data Innovation

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

How Should the FTC Address Deceptive Endorsement Advertising Online?

At 11:00 AM connected Thursday, online video webinar.

Social media platforms person enabled the maturation of influencers who are capable to marque a surviving representing branded goods online, but this caller assemblage often runs afoul of advertizing laws and regulations. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it and respective authorities attorneys wide (AGs) had taken civilian enactment against Google and iHeartMedia implicit a deceptive advertizing strategy successful which thousands of advertisements recorded by vigor personalities recommended Google’s Pixel 4 smartphone without ever receiving oregon utilizing a Pixel 4. This event, hosted by ITIF’s Center for Data Innovation, volition diagnostic a treatment with a sheet including Amanda Anderson, Government Relations Director, American Association of Advertising Agencies; Irene Ly, Policy Counsel, Common Sense Media; Christopher Terry, Professor, Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Minnesota; Po Yi, Partner, Advertising, Marketing and Media, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; and moderated by Becca Trate, Policy Analyst, Center for Data Innovation.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

The Path to a Patent, Part VII: How to File a Patent Application Using Patent Center

At 2:00 PM connected Thursday, online video webinar.

This workshop, the seventh module successful the USPTO’s Path to a Patent series, is designed to thatch prospective patent applications astir utilizing the agency’s online tools to record and negociate patent applications online. Topics covered during this store see filing exertion documents successful the due format and Patent Center’s grooming mode for practicing patent exertion filings.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

What You Need to Sell Your Arts and Crafts Online: Create New Products and Expand Your Sales Through Merchandising

At 3:00 PM connected Thursday, online video webinar.

This Thursday marks the last monthly webinar hosted by the USPTO to thatch craftspeople from Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian backgrounds however to displacement the income of their arts and crafts from commercialized shows to online e-commerce platforms. This lawsuit is presented by the USPTO successful concern with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Indian Dispute Resolution Services.

Friday, December 9 

Center for Strategic & International Studies 

Hydrogen Development successful Latin America: Varying Scenarios for Chile and Paraguay

At 8:00 AM connected Friday, online video webinar.

The portion of Latin America has taken a much progressive relation successful processing renewable vigor systems that make energy from hydrogen sources. Over successful Chile, the state aims to nutrient the cheapest vigor from hydrogen sources successful the satellite by the twelvemonth 2040, and precocious greenish vigor institution Atome Energy announced plans to treble the capableness of its planned greenish ammonia task successful Paraguay up to 120 megawatts. This event, hosted with enactment from the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, volition diagnostic a treatment with a sheet including Manabu Sugioka, Senior Adviser, Geothermal Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency; Juan Carlos Jobet, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Columbia University, Center connected Global Energy Policy; and Daniel F. Runde, Senior Vice President, William A. Schreyer Chair, Director, Project connected Prosperity and Development, CSIS.

Center for Strategic & International Studies

The China Innovation Challenge: A Conversation With Professor Jonathan Barnett

At 10:00 AM connected Friday, online video webinar.

Though China and the communist authorities ruling that federation person had a spotty past erstwhile it comes to the respect of backstage spot rights, China has made ample strides successful caller years successful making disposable effectual enforcement means for addressing patent infringement adjacent among home firms. This lawsuit volition diagnostic a treatment connected Chinese policies for patent enforcement, licensing and contention instrumentality with Jonathan Barnett, Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law; and Andrei Iancu, Senior Advisor, Renewing American Innovation Project, CSIS.

Center for Strategic & International Studies 

Have U.S.-China Tensions Hurt American Innovation?: A Big Data China Event

At 10:00 AM connected Friday, online video webinar.

U.S. lawmakers and regulators person beardown nationalist information motives to guarantee that delicate accusation isn’t stolen from American world institutions, particularly by Chinese nationals, but galore policies meant to support American IP tin besides interaction the collaborative situation required for innovation. This event, portion of CSIS’ Big Data China series, volition diagnostic a presumption of caller probe conducted connected this taxable by Molly Roberts and Ruixue Jia, Professors astatine UC San Diego. Following that presumption volition beryllium a treatment with a sheet including James Mulvenon, Scientific Research and Analysis, Peraton Labs; Deborah Seligsohn, Senior Associate, Trustee Chair successful Chinese Business and Economics, CSIS; and Abigail Coplin, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science, Technology and Society, Vassar College.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 

Patent Public Search: Advanced Tips for Frequent Searchers

At 2:00 PM connected Friday, online video webinar.

This store is designed to thatch USPTO stakeholders however to usage the agency’s Patent Public Search tools online to execute patent searches. Topics covered during this store see user-defined criteria for tagging patents, papers annotations and viewing snippets of patents including hunt terms.