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The National Law Review
The PATENT and Innovation Acts – Targeting Patent Troll Abuses – Voted to the Floor of the Senate and House with More Work to be Done
Patent reform legislation targeting patent trolls continues to move forward as the Senate’s PATENT Act, introduced into the Senate at the end of April, was voted out of Committee and to the Senate floor by a 16-4 vote on Thursday, June 4, 2015; and the Innovation Act, introduced into the House of Representatives in February…
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NC State Technician
Hunt hosts economic summit
“Am I allowed here?” asked former UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student, Mark Weinberg, during the reception at the end of the first day of the Summer Meeting of the Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity in Hunt Library on Monday.Weinberg, now Dean of the School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University, was one…
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Washington Times
GOP divided on bill to prevent bogus patents
Legislation aimed at stymieing bogus patent lawsuits is heating up in the nation’s capital — pitting universities against industry groups, entrepreneurial innovators against the titans of Silicon Valley and some establishment Republican politicians against political newcomers.
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Education Week
Why Colleges Should Care About the Common Core
Now that the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts and mathematics have been adopted in much of the country, states are busy with their implementation. We have no doubt that, over time, these new K-12 standards will produce larger numbers of college-ready (and career-ready) students—as promised. College-bound freshmen can expect to head off to…
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Inside Higher Ed
Innovative Knowledge-Practice Networks
In the first part of this post, we reviewed the concept of faculty emotional ownership in an innovative teaching community as a way to reduce Not-Invented-Here obstacles to scaling up effective teaching practices for student success. In this follow-up, we’re going to focus on emerging developments that are centered on course-related collaborations. That usually involves…
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The Hill
Achieve global food security by investing in universities
When considering U.S. foreign assistance programs, one often hears calls for sustainability. In other words, programs should promote the partner developing country’s ability to graduate from aid and take charge of its own economic growth. Achieving sustainability requires investments in human and institutional capacity. For food security and global agriculture, this means building the capacities…
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Chemistry World
US universities back new bill to curb patent trolls
The academic research community is endorsing new legislation to clamp down on so-called patent trolling, introduced by Senator Chris Coons and several Democratic colleagues in direct opposition to the much-maligned Innovation Act already sponsored by Republican congressman Bob Goodlatte. Last month, more than 140 universities warned congressional leaders that Goodlatte’s bill would interrupt the flow…
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Education Dive
College and university leaders argue for more federal money
The presidents of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the Association of American Universities and the American Council on Education sent a letter to ranking Democrats and Republicans on the House and Senate budget committees, urging them to pull the recent spending caps from the 2016 budget and prioritize funding for higher education and…
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IPWatchdog
Pro-patentee Patent Reform, the STRONG Patents Act Introduced in Senate
Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) have submitted alternative patent reform legislation. The Support Technology and Research for Our Nations Growth Patents Act, or STRONG Patents Act, is supported by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the Innovation Alliance and at least several major university groups, including the Association of American…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
3 Higher-Education Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Raise Research Funding
Three higher-education leaders are urging federal lawmakers to repeal sequestration and increase research funding in the budget for the 2016 fiscal year. In a letter on Friday, the presidents of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the Association of American Universities, and the American Council on Education wrote that continued limits on federal investment…
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