{"id":24706,"date":"2018-02-26T09:14:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2018-02-26T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T14:18:40","slug":"image-of-the-day-u-s-falls-to-12th-in-worldwide-patent-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24706\/image-of-the-day-u-s-falls-to-12th-in-worldwide-patent-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  U.S. Falls to 12th in Worldwide Patent Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/3939-economic-freedom-index-us-stabilizes-in-trumps-first-year\" target=\"_blank\">constantly stressed<\/a>, America&#8217;s history of leading the world in protecting intellectual property (IP) explains our status as the most inventive, creative and prosperous nation in human history perhaps more than any other factor.\u00a0 That includes <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1679-the-constitutional-and-historical-foundations-of-copyright-protection\" target=\"_blank\">patent protection<\/a>, where the U.S. has traditionally led the world.\u00a0 Unfortunately, over the past eight years the U.S. has surrendered that status and plummeted to 12th in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s annual ranking of patent protections.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"U.S. Falls to 12th in Patent Protection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Chamber-Patent-2018-1.png\" alt=\"U.S. Falls to 12th\" width=\"680\" height=\"906\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, many of the nations that now surpass us compete with us for jobs, investment and companies looking to innovate.\u00a0 It&#8217;s therefore critical that we pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/3956-coalition-urges-support-of-the-stronger-patents-act-of-2017\" target=\"_blank\">STRONGER Patents Act<\/a> currently before Congress, which CFIF enthusiastically supports, to restore our status as the world&#8217;s leader in patent protection lest we continue to lose ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve constantly stressed, America&#8217;s history of leading the world in protecting intellectual property (IP) explains our status as the most inventive, creative and prosperous nation in human history perhaps more than any other factor.\u00a0 That includes patent protection, where the U.S. has traditionally led the world.\u00a0 Unfortunately, over the past eight years the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2871,2872,1442,5002],"class_list":["post-24706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-intellectual-property","tag-ip","tag-patent","tag-stronger-patents-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24706"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24712,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions\/24712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}