FREEDOM LINE BLOG: Senate Must Support Strong Patent Rights, Not Erode Them
As we at CFIF often highlight, strong intellectual property (IP) rights - including patent rights -…
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Senate Must Support Strong Patent Rights, Not Erode Them

As we at CFIF often highlight, strong intellectual property (IP) rights - including patent rights - constitute a core element of "American Exceptionalism" and explain how we became the most inventive, prosperous, technologically advanced nation in human history.  Our Founding Fathers considered IP so important that they explicitly protected it in the text of Article I of the United States Constitution.

Strong patent rights also explain how the U.S. accounts for an incredible two-thirds of all new lifesaving drugs introduced worldwide.

Elected officials must therefore work to protect strong IP and patent rights, not undermine them.   Unfortunately, several anti-patent bills currently before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee this week threaten to do exactly…[more]

April 02, 2025 • 08:29 PM
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Wednesday, June 25 2014

Two New York men have filed a class-action lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court against Chobani Greek Yogurt, alleging false advertising because, according to their claim, “[n]one of the Products sold in the U.S. are made in Greece or made by Greek nationals…”

Plaintiffs Barry Stoltz of Scarsdale and Allan Chang of Queens are seeking unspecified monetary damages for allegedly being tricked into believing that the products are made in Greece and imported from Greece.

"Much like English muffins and French fries, our fans understand Greek yogurt to be a product description about how we authentically make our yogurt and not about where we make our yogurt in upstate New York and Idaho," a Chobani spokesperson said.

—Source:  dailysignal.com

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