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This Week in Washington IP: Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains, Promoting Investments into Climate Innovations, and Establishing the Next Generation Telecommunications Council

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, in the Senate, the Commerce Committee will hold an executive session to debate the Next Generation Telecommunications Act and a hearing focused on actions Congress can take to secure critical supply chains in semiconductors. Japan cooperation in key areas of emerging technology.

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New EU Regulatory Regime for SEPs Will Upend Mobile Telecommunications Sector

IP Watchdog

The European Union is considering a new regulatory regime for the licensing and litigation of standard essential patents (SEPs) that will destabilize the global telecommunications market.

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Government Must Reform the ITC to Keep Pace with Innovation and Curb Trolls

IP Watchdog

In 2001, six years before the iPhone appeared, a futurist named Ray Kurzweil wrote that humankind would cram 20,000 years of technological progress into the century that had just begun.

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Exploring the Differing Views of the ITC and CAFC on ETSI Licensing Declarations

IP Watchdog

focusing, in particular, on the CAFCs findings regarding interpretation and performance of the contractual obligation associated with the licensing declaration utilized by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) as set forth in the ETSI IPR Policy. Lenovo (United States), Inc.

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This Week in Washington IP: Open Source Cybersecurity Solutions, Civil Capabilities for Space Situational Awareness and Using AI for Effective RegTech

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Science Committee convenes an executive session on Wednesday to deliberate over a pair of bills that would direct the Federal Communications Commission’s activities on establishing universal telecommunications services.

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Black Inventors Hall of Fame Museum: Highlighting the Lost Stories of American Innovation

IP Watchdog

Within the next few years, the city of Newark, NJ, will be the home of a museum properly paying homage to the historic contributions that these inventors have made to medical science, telecommunications, transportation and more.

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AT&T’s $13 Million FCC Settlement Highlights Persistent Data Security Challenges

Complex Discovery

Editor’s Note: AT&T’s $13 million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) following a significant data breach in January 2023 highlights the ongoing cybersecurity challenges faced by telecommunications giants. This breach, which exposed the personal data of 8.9