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A Labor Day Message for President Obama, opinion editorial in the Wall Street Journal, by Henry Nothhaft
September 3, 2011

We know that job growth comes from start-up companies, not established ones. Why not make life easier for them?

Dear Mr. President,

As you spend this Labor Day preparing your speech to the nation on job creation, I urge you to avoid ideologically loaded programs like a new stimulus that probably won't get through Congress, and instead focus on a few practical, low-cost measures that we know will create lots of jobs quickly.

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Letter: More than 150 organizations call on Congress to stop USPTO user fee diversion
June 13, 2011

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Opinion Editorial: Good patents protect jobs All politicians should support the patent-reform bill, by William George, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 7, 2011

All eyes have been on Wisconsin lately, as union members and the governor's office have battled very publicly over the conditions of employment in the state. Some political observers have speculated the fight might come to Pennsylvania next.

It would be more productive for both sides, though, to work on the one thing on which unions and all lawmakers can agree -- we can't afford to send American jobs overseas.

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Letter: Bruce E. Hayden, 2011 Chairman, IEEE-USA Intellectual Property Committee
February 15, 2011

The Honorable Patrick Leahy, Chair
Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate
224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Chairman Leahy,

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Statement of Judge Paul R Michel (Ret.), former Chief Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, before the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet
February 11, 2011

Chairman Goodlatte, Ranking Member Watt, and Members of the Subcommittee:

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Speech: Lisa Kuuttila, President of STC.UNM, at the Innovation Alliance conference
January 21, 2011

Job Creation and Innovation Panel:  How an Idea Can Create Jobs and Economic Growth

I am very happy to be here today, as the US research university voice in the innovation circle discussion.  I have worked for a number of universities in the commercialization of research results over the past almost 30 years and have had the privilege to see tremendous growth in the creation of new companies based on university research results during that time.

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Video: Retired Federal Chief Judge Paul Michel at the Innovation Alliance Conference
January 21, 2011

Audience Q & A Session

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Speech: Retired Chief Federal Judge Paul Michel Remarks and Audience Q & A at the Innovation Alliance Conference
January 21, 2011

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AFL-CIO Letter on Senate Manager's Amendment to S. 515
March 25, 2010
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New Study: "Problems to be Expected from Expanded Administrative Challenges to U.S. Patents," by Scott Shane, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University
July 20, 2009

Executive Summary:

Recently, critics of the U.S. patent system have called for a system of expanded administrative challenges to patents, modeled on the post grant opposition system used in
Europe. The proposed changes to U.S. law would create a litigation-like mechanism for
third party-initiated post grant review and expand the existing inter partes reexamination process. These challenges would occur at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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