Jessica McBroom

March 18, 2022

Jessica McBroom is Director for International Economics and Competitiveness at the National Security Council, White House. Jessica has driven the President’s supply chain agenda since the beginning of the Biden-Harris Administration, including as the chief coordinator for the implementation of Executive Order 14017 on America’s Supply Chains. She is currently on detail from the Office of Industrial Policy at the Department of Defense. Prior to that, Jessica was in the private sector as Vice President at a major U.S. financial institution and also served as a Director at a major manufacturing-focused trade association. Jessica has also held positions at the Department of State. She has a B.A. from Tulane University in political science and a minor in the French language. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan

Summary of article: “AI for Patent and Essentiality Review” by Katie Atkinson & Danushka Bollegala

January 23, 2023

An important step in the process of developing novel standards for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is to determine whether a patent held by a company is, or might be, required in order to practice the concepts of a given ICT standard. Patented inventions that prove necessary for the practice

International Pro-Competition Regulation of Digital Platforms: Healthy Experimentation or Dangerous Fragmentation?

December 14, 2022

Amelia Fletcher, Norwich Business School, and Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia. The increasing dominance of a small number of ‘big tech’ companies across a range of critical online markets has led to growing calls for the adoption of regulation to promote competition and ensure that market power

China’s Practice of Anti-Suit Injunctions in SEP Litigation: Transplant or False Friend?

November 5, 2022

In 2020, China abruptly became the largest grantor of anti-suit injunctions (ASIs), which are court orders that prevent the opposing party from beginning or continuing a proceeding in another jurisdiction. China’s use of ASIs, which were used to address patent litigation initiated in a foreign country, was explicitly supported by