Sen. Tillis Asks ACUS to Conduct Study on Creation of U.S. IP Office

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of the Senate Committee of the Judiciary, wrote to the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) to request that the...

Tillis Floats Idea To Consolidate USPTO, Copyright Office - Law360

The top Republican on the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property says there's too much "unnecessary bureaucracy" in the federal government's approach to patents, trademarks and copyright law and wants a study done on how to combine the...

Senator Tillis Holds Secret Meeting With IP Maximalists To Discuss A Single US 'IP' Agency

Senator Thom Tillis is chock full of bad ideas about copyrights and patents -- mostly focused on making things worse for the public by expanding the monopoly powers granted to patent and copyright holders. So I guess it comes as little surprise...

Senator Tillis To President Biden: How Dare You Nominate To The FCC Someone Prepared To Protect The Public

Senator Tillis penned a letter to President Biden this week that is breathtaking in its obtuseness. In it, he demanded that the President withdraw the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC for having championed the longstanding ability of the public...

Senators Tillis And Leahy Raise The Alarm About Judge Albright's Patent Forum Selling In Waco

At times I've been at odds with Senators Pat Leahy and Thom Tillis regarding their view on intellectual property (though Leahy has a good history on patent law -- Tillis... not so much). However, kudos to both of them for recognizing a very, very...

Pride in Patent Ownership Act

by Dennis Crouch A bipartisan pair of Senators have proposed the "Pride in Patent Ownership Act."  The premise is that …