Industries & Labor

March 9, 2009

From the letter:

We are writing to seek your help in ensuring that efforts to alter our nation’s patent laws
do not undermine innovation, production and job creation here in America. While the bills
recently introduced by Chairmen Leahy and Conyers and Senator Hatch and Congressman Smith represent improvements over last year’s legislation, we remain very concerned about its approach on the key issue of how to calculate damages for infringed patents.

March 9, 2009

We write today regarding the importance of the United States patent system to our
transition to a clean energy economy. Our companies and those we represent are committed to
nurturing the innovation pipeline and subsequent domestic manufacturing capacity that will build
the next generation of energy efficient, renewable energy, and renewable fuel technologies,
creating thousands of American jobs in the process. However, we are concerned with recent
legislative proposals to make fundamental changes to the US patent system that we believe

March 8, 2008

Judging from last week's debate between the two top Democratic candidates for president, the 5,000-pound elephant in the room was the North American Free Trade Agreement. As this year's presidential contest heats up, once again the polls show that voters rank economic concerns as a top priority. This is especially true in Ohio, where we've seen the loss of 257,600 manufacturing jobs since 2000.

March 4, 2008

AFL-CIO Executive Council statement

America continues to lead the world in ingenuity, creativity and product innovation. The ability of our people to continually develop new products and services is the envy of the world and is a major engine of growth for our economy.

June 6, 2007
InterDigial Communications Corporation's (NASDAQ:IDCC) Chief Intellectual Property and Licensing Officer, Bruce Bernstein, testified today in a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Patent Reform Act of 2007 (S. 1145).

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