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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Tuesday, March 17 2015

"America's Got Talent" host Nick Cannon is suing his estranged wife, Mariah Carey, for leaving him in the dark about the $9 million sale of the Bel-Air home the couple once shared.

According to the lawsuit, Cannon claims that Carey and her business manager, Michael Kane, took control of the sale and that he didn't find out about it until after the fact.

Although Cannon claims to be fine with the sale and price, he says the problem is that he was not kept in the loop from start to finish. And he's most concerned about how the funds from the sale will be divvied up. Cannon wants the $9 million frozen until they can determine who will be getting what.

Source:  tmz.com

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