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Securing the U.S. Biopharma Innovation System against Bad Ideas

By Jeffery Depp and Tisyaketu Sirkar The journey of Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s Nobel prize-winning invention of modified nucleotides—essential components of the mRNA vaccines—to their commercial application in vaccines that aided in arresting the Covid-19 pandemic illustrates the importance of a robust innovation system that is founded
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When AI Helps Generate Inventions, Who Is the Inventor?

By Andrei Iancu and Rama Elluru This commentary from the CSIS-SCSP Task Force on IP in the AI Era was originally published in the Special Competitive Studies Project’s Substack on February 15, 2024. With roots in the U.S. constitution, patent rights provide an exclusive property right in new
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Standard Essential Patents and European Economic Security

By Kirti Gupta and Chris Borges On April 27, 2023, the European Commission published a draft proposal on standard essential patents (SEPs) seeking to address the perceived lack of transparency and predictability in the licensing of SEPs. The commission proposes the creation of a competence center within the
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