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IDA Comments on USPTO’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

On behalf of the Inventors Defense Alliance (IDA), we submit these comments regarding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
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US House Judiciary Committee OK’s foreign litigation funding disclosure bill

A day after committee passage of the "Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2025”, a US senator also introduced the measure in the upper chamber.
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U.S. House Judiciary Committee Advances Litigation Funding Reform Bill

The latest measure designed to tackle litigation finance is one of several different bills making their way through Congress aimed at addressing issues such as foreign influence in the third-party funding industry.
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Third-Party Litigation Funding Bill Faces House Hurdle

The “Litigation Transparency Act of 2025,” which would curb the use of third-party litigation funding in U.S. lawsuits, failed to get to a vote in the House Judiciary Committee today.
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Kristen Osenga on patent optimism and legislative inaction

From the research awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics to a patentee-friendly shift at the US Patent and Trademark Office, innovation is having a moment. Kristen Osenga tells MLex the attention is long overdue — and that it’s time for Congress to do its part.
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After the Shutdown, Congress Is Back … to Help Big Tech

After the longest government shutdown in modern history, the House is finally back in session. Unfortunately, one of its first orders of business appears to be siding with Big Tech over small inventors.
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The Tillis Tax betrays Ohio’s inventors

Imagine a world without the airplane, the lightbulb, or self-starting cars. These homegrown inventions revolutionized modern life and we have Ohio inventors to thank. But they didn’t succeed on ingenuity alone. They thrived because of a system that protected their ideas. For centuries, strong intellectual property rights have powered American innovation.
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Litigation Transparency Bill Stacks Deck Against Small Inventors

Congress is considering a measure that could harm the very people the US depends on for its next wave of innovation. The Litigation Transparency Act of 2025 would force plaintiffs to reveal details about anyone who helps finance their lawsuits.
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The Proposed ‘Tillis Tax’ Would Hamper Missouri’s Inventors

Missouri's inventors are helping power America's next technological renaissance -- from medical breakthroughs in St. Louis to ag-tech innovation in Columbia and aerospace engineering in Kansas City. But now, a federal tax scheme threatens to undermine that momentum and penalize the very people driving it.
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Don’t Let Washington Undercut Tennessee Innovators

From the bustling research corridors of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to the advanced manufacturing plants in Clarksville and the growing tech ecosystem in Nashville, Tennessee’s entrepreneurs are fueling America’s innovation economy.
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