This week in Washington IP information, the Senate Power Committee will talk about R&D initiatives underway to scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions from the nation’s transportation sector. Over within the Home of Representatives, a number of subcommittees will maintain hearings associated to Large Tech antitrust points, methods to rebuild the federal scientist workforce and the SHOP SAFE Act, which might amend U.S. trademark legislation to create contributory legal responsibility to platforms permitting counterfeit gross sales. Elsewhere, the Hudson Institute will deal with transatlantic efforts to include antitrust efforts into IP licensing, whereas the Data Know-how & Innovation Basis explores the potential impacts of the Digital Markets Act within the EU.
Tuesday, March 16
Senate Committee on Power & Pure Assets
Full Committee Hearing on Transportation Technologies
At 9:30 AM on Tuesday in 366 Dirksen Senate Workplace Constructing.
The transportation sector is a serious contributor of greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions, accounting for nearly one-third of total GHG emissions annually. Final week, the U.S. Division of Power (DoE) published notices of intent to make obtainable funding alternatives for analysis, growth, demonstration and deployment of GHG decreasing applied sciences within the transportation sector in areas together with on- and off-road electrical autos, changing home biomass into gasoline and elevated freight transportation effectivity. The witness panel for this listening to will embody Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Secretary and Performing Assistant Secretary, Power Effectivity and Renewable Power, U.S. DoE; Edmund Adam Muellerweiss, Chief Sustainability Officer, Clarios; Janvier Désiré Nkurunziza, Officer-in-Cost, Commodities Department and Chief, Commodity Analysis and Evaluation Part Division on Worldwide Commerce and Commodities, United Nations Convention on Commerce & Improvement; Tony Satterthwaite, Vice Chairman, Cummins; and Robert Wimmer, Director, Power and Environmental Analysis Group, Toyota Motor North America.
Data Know-how & Innovation Basis
Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “Biden Antitrust”
At 10:00 AM on Tuesday, on-line video webinar.
Upon taking workplace within the White Home, President Biden inherited quite a lot of antitrust exercise towards Large Tech underway with the assistance of each the federal legislature and federal judiciary. Though Biden will definitely make his mark on the trail of antitrust reform efforts at present underway, it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not he’ll proceed the populist tone of current antitrust efforts or whether or not Biden would possibly as an alternative take the route of implementing towards anticompetitive behaviors by innovation coverage. This occasion, co-hosted by ITIF and Competitors Coverage Worldwide, will characteristic a dialogue on antitrust and innovation with a panel together with William E. Kovacic, Director, Competitors Legislation Middle, George Washington College Legislation Faculty; Noah Joshua Phillips, Commissioner, Federal Commerce Fee; and moderated by Aurelien Portuese, Director, Antitrust and Innovation Coverage, ITIF.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace
Trademark Basics Boot Camp, Module 7: Keeping Your Registration Alive
At 2:00 PM on Tuesday, on-line video webinar.
This workshop is the seventh module within the USPTO’s eight-part sequence designed to show the fundamentals of trademark registration to small enterprise house owners and entrepreneurs who need to profit from defending their marks. This module will deal with required and optionally available post-registration filings in addition to the examination of these filings by company personnel.
Wednesday, March 17
Home Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Brain Drain: Rebuilding the Federal Scientific Workforce
At 10:00 AM on Wednesday, on-line video webinar.
In late January, the Union of Involved Scientists published analysis of the federal scientific workforce exhibiting that federal companies misplaced a complete of 925 science staff throughout the Trump Administration, together with almost 700 science staff within the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) alone. Though there may be optimism amongst EPA staff that President Biden may make constructive reforms, many on the company are still seeking the end of lean management techniques and different workforce insurance policies put in place by former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. The witness panel for this occasion will embody Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, Director of the Middle for Science and Democracy, Union of Involved Scientists; Max Stier, President and CEO, Partnership for Public Service; and Dr. Betsy Southerland, Former Director of Science and Know-how, Workplace of Water, EPA.
Home Subcommittee on Courts, Mental Property, and the Web
The SHOP SAFE Act: Stemming the Rising Tide of Unsafe Counterfeit Products Online
At 10:00 AM on Wednesday in 2141 Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing.
Launched final March by Representatives Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Doug Collins (R-GA), Hank Johnson, Jr. (D-GA) and Martha Roby (R-AL), the Stopping Dangerous Gives on Platforms by Screening Towards Fakes in E-commerce (SHOP SAFE) Act would amend the Lanham Act to create contributory legal responsibility for e-commerce platform suppliers for third-party gross sales of counterfeits that use infringing logos. Such protections towards counterfeit gross sales are actually extra essential than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which contributed to a 32 percent increase in online shopping within the pandemic’s first few months. The witness panel for this listening to has but to be introduced.
Data Know-how & Innovation Basis
Using Data to Fight Counterfeiting in E-Commerce
At 10:00 AM on Wednesday, on-line video webinar.
Points with counterfeit merchandise are rife on e-commerce platforms of all sizes and regardless of efforts to root them out, counterfeiters are in a position to exploit what must be protected markets with the intention to make cash promoting illegitimate items that not solely deprive the rightful model house owners of cash however may also trigger main well being and security issues for shoppers. This occasion, which is able to talk about ways in which synthetic intelligence (AI) can determine counterfeiters and disrupt their networks, in addition to legislative reforms underway to include AI into anti-counterfeiting efforts, will characteristic a dialogue with a panel together with Mary Beth Westmoreland, VP Model Safety, Amazon; Kasie Brill, Vice President of Model Safety & Strategic Initiatives, and Government Director, International Model Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; William Ross, Senior Advisor, Nationwide IPR Middle; and moderated by Sujai Shivakumar, Affiliate Director, Middle for Information Innovation.
Hudson Institute
Maintaining a Transatlantic Consensus on Antitrust and IP Licensing
At 12:00 PM on Wednesday, on-line video webinar.
Courts in each the U.S. and the EU have issued choices involving the intersection of patent rights and antitrust coverage, with a lot of their approaches additionally being included by federal or nationwide companies on both aspect of the Atlantic. It’s hoped that these efforts will end in swift adoption of 5G wi-fi applied sciences, which portend a fantastic financial boon for international locations that may shortly undertake these community improvements. This occasion will characteristic a dialogue with a panel together with David Kappos, Accomplice, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and Former Below Secretary of Commerce for Mental Property and Director, U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace; Dina Kallay, Head of Antitrust (IPR, Americas, and Asia-Pacific), Ericsson; Stefanie Mielert, Senior Authorized Knowledgeable, Requirements, IP and Innovation, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft; Jonathan Bartnett, Professor of Legislation, Gould Faculty of Legislation on the College of Southern California, and Director, Media, Leisure and Know-how Legislation Program; and moderated by Urška Petrov?i?, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace
2021 Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium: Resources for Protecting Your Intellectual Property
At 12:00 PM on Wednesday, on-line video webinar.
This installment of the 2021 Girls’s Entrepreneurship Symposium focuses on numerous assets obtainable to assist entrepreneurs shield their inventive work, together with authorities assets for aiding inventors, free authorized providers and small enterprise proprietor help. USPTO and different authorities company personnel talking at this occasion will embody Jennifer Harchick, Employees Lawyer, Workplace of Enrollment and Self-discipline, USPTO; Benjamin Nils Hardman, Senior Worldwide Commerce Specialist – Element, Workplace of Requirements and Mental Property, Trade & Evaluation, Worldwide Commerce Administration, U.S. Division of Commerce; Jason Lott, Lawyer Advisor for Emblems Buyer Outreach, Emblems, USPTO; Jennifer Shieh, Chief Scientist and Program Supervisor, Workplace of Innovation and Know-how, Workplace of Funding and Innovation, U.S. Small Enterprise Administration; and Heidi Kelley, Know-how Middle Operations Supervisor, USPTO.
Thursday, March 18
U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace
China IP Basics, Part 2: Enforcing Your Intellectual Property Rights
This workshop, designed for enterprise house owners who’re excited by getting into the Chinese language market, is the second of a two-part sequence on defending mental property in China. This occasion will talk about civil, administrative and felony enforcement of IP legislation in China, how one can cooperate with on-line platforms to implement IP rights, and a hypothetical IP rights case in China. Shows at this workshop can be supplied by Han-Mei Tso, Accomplice, Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton; He Fang, Accomplice, King & Wooden Mallesons; and Joel Clean, Assistant Basic Counsel, Commerce Coverage and Advocacy, Chapter 4 Corp.
Data Know-how & Innovation Basis
How Can the EU’s Digital Markets Act Unlock the Power of Data?
At 10:00 AM on Thursday, on-line video webinar.
The legislative our bodies of the European Union are at present assessing the potential impacts of the Digital Markets Act, a invoice that, if handed into legislation, would outline sure giant on-line platforms as “gatekeepers” and impose upon them numerous data-sharing and interoperability necessities that critics say may hurt competitors and privateness in excessive tech markets which are extremely dynamic. This occasion, hosted by ITIF’s Middle for Information Innovation, will discover methods to steadiness shopper knowledge safety with sustaining an open atmosphere for innovation by a dialogue with a panel together with Thomas Kramler, Head of Unit Antitrust: E-commerce and Information Coverage, COMP.C.6; Phillip Malloch, Director for Financial Coverage, Fb; Andreas Schwab, MEP, Committee on the Inside Market and Shopper Safety, Rapporteur of the DMA, Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands; Karina Stan, Director of EU Coverage, Builders Alliance; Marshall Van Alstyne, Questrom Chair Professor, Boston College; and moderated by Christophe Carugati, Senior Coverage Analyst, Middle for Information Innovation.
Home Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business, and Administrative Legislation
Reviving Competition, Part 3: Strengthening the Laws to Address Monopoly Power
At 2:00 PM on Thursday in 2141 Rayburn.
The outsized influence of some Large Tech firms on main swaths of the U.S. financial system has been a serious focus amongst lawmakers in each the Home and the Senate in recent times. In late February, the Home Antitrust Subcommittee held one of many first hearings on this sequence targeted on reviving competitors at which members of the subcommittee promised major efforts to prosecute antitrust violations in response to a report commissioned by the subcommittee on the anticompetitive enterprise practices of Google, Fb, Amazon and Apple. The witness panel for this listening to has but to be introduced.
Friday, March 19
Home Subcommittee on Cyber, Revolutionary Applied sciences, and Data Techniques
At 3:00 PM on Friday, on-line video webinar.
Final fall, the U.S. Division of Protection (DoD) released details on its Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy which seeks to boost the army’s response in making use of wi-fi spectrum for next-generation battlefield applied sciences to remain forward of overseas rivals on this essential sector of innovation. In late February, the DoD announced a $5 million contract with Kumu Networks for an built-in entry backhaul mission that goals to halve the DoD’s present spectrum wants by combining transmitting and listening features of radio gear on the identical frequency. The witness panel for this listening to will embody Dr. Joseph Kirschbaum, Director, Protection Capabilities and Administration Staff, Authorities Accountability Workplace; Bryan Clark, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; and Dr. William Conley, Chief Know-how Officer, Mercury Techniques, Inc.
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