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2025

2024

2023

2022

  • November 28, 2022: Letter to Senators Leahy and Tillis on provisions of the “Pride in Patent Ownership Act,” S. 2774
  • September 15, 2022: Letter to Senator Tillis in support of the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act
  • July 25, 2022: Letter to leadership of the U.S. House and Senate on Inclusion of the SHOP SAFE Act and INFORM Consumers Act in the final version of the Bipartisan Innovation Act
  • May 26, 2022: Letter to the U.S. Copyright Office on standard technical measures

2021

  • November 29, 2021: Joint letter from American Bar Association and ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law to Congress re: USPTO fee diversion
  • July 16, 2021: Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee on authentication delay for use in IP cases abroad
  • July 6, 2021: Letter to U.S. House leaders in support of SHOP SAFE Act of 2021 (H.R. 3429)
  • July 6, 2021: Letter to U.S. Senate leaders in support of SHOP SAFE Act of 2021 (S. 1843)
  • May 10, 2021: Comments to the Copyright Office on CASE Act regulations
  • March 5, 2021: Comments to Senator Tillis on select provisions of the Draft Digital Copyrights Act of 2021

2020

  • December 1, 2020: Comments on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Sen. Thom Tillis, Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary
  • August 25, 2020: Comments to the House Judiciary Committee on the SHOP SAFE Act of 2020
  • June 29, 2020: Comments to the Senate Finance Committee regarding enhancing the authority of United States Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) to enforce United States design patents
  • May 29, 2020: Letter to Rep. Latta on House Resolution 875 and the Importance of Access to Domain Name Registrant Information in the WHOIS Database
  • May 6, 2020: ABA-IPL Section participates in Virtual ABA Day: CASE Act advocacy 
  • May 6, 2020: CASE Act Panel Discussion
  • March 19, 2020: Comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on online publication
  • March 10, 2020: Letter to the Librarian of Congress on Copyright Register qualifications

2019

  • September 30, 2019: Letter to Congress recommending additions to the IDEA Act 
  • September 9, 2019: Letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee for the official record of the hearing held on July 18, 2019 by that subcommittee on “Counterfeits and Cluttering: Emerging Threats to the Integrity of the Trademark System and the Impact on American Consumers and Businesses.”
  • September 6, 2019: Letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee from ABA President on the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (the CASE Act)
  • June 24, 2019: Supplemental responses to questions for the record on the State of Patent Eligibility in America
  • June 18, 2019: Letter to Senate IP Subcommittee providing supplemental views on the State of Patent Eligibility in America, following June 5 testimony of Scott Partridge
  • June 5, 2019: ABA-IPL Immediate Past Chair Scott Partridge provides live testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Law, on “The State of Patent Eligibility in America.”