Brian Pomper
Brian Pomper is the Executive Director of the Innovation Alliance, a group that represents a broad range of research organizations on policy issues.
Posts by Brian Pomper
A Step Forward for the STRONGER Patents Act
The bipartisan STRONGER Patents Act of 2019 took an important step forward last week, as the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a hearing on the proposed …
Senators Coons and Cotton introduce STRONGER Patents Act of 2017
This comprehensive legislation is exactly what is needed to strengthen our patent system, which will promote American innovation, competitiveness and job creation. For roughly a decade now, …
PATENT Act Still Ominous For Startups and Small Inventors
Although the latest version of the PATENT Act (S.1137) represents an improvement over previous versions of the legislation, it would still make all U.S. patents less …
Innovation Act makes patents harder to enforce, easier to infringe
Many of the provisions of H.R. 9 would unnecessarily undermine the enforceability of all U.S. patent rights, even when clearly valid patents are being enforced in …
In Considering Patent Law Changes, Don’t Forget Impact on Universities
While there has been much written in the past months on efforts to change the U.S. patent system, there has been little focus on the vital …
DOJ should not approve IEEE patent policy weakening WiFi patents
This radical new policy would sharply and artificially reduce the level of protection given to Wi-Fi-related patents. If approved, the change would immediately depress the future development …
Opinion: Regrettable White House Intervention on Patent Trolls
What’s regrettable is that the White House didn’t wait for such empirical data on patent litigation and instead rehashed the findings of discredited studies of …
