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, July 20 2010

A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by a retired Los Angeles police officer who sued a gun maker after his 3-year-old son shot him.

Anaheim, California resident Enrique Chavez was off-duty when he was shot in the back by his son, who was not in a car seat when he fired his father's nearby .45-caliber Glock.
 
Chavez, who was left paralyzed from the waist down, sued Glock, alleging that the gun's safety was "non-existent or ineffective."  The defense countered that Chavez admitted he forgot the gun was in the back seat when he put his son in the truck.
 
In dismissing the suit, the judge cited an "exhaustive review" of the gun's safety conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department prior to purchase.
 
The suit also alleged negligence on the part of the maker of the gun's holster, the store where Chavez bought the holster and the store where he purchased the gun.  
 
—Source: The Orange County Register (CA)

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