We intend to take another strong run at it and would be grateful for your close cooperation.

One potential way to address some of the issues in PTAB that is in the PREVAIL Act, is a standing requirement for inter partes review.

Congratulations to all of the nominees, and their families.

Would you just, as a matter of general principle, agree that if you have got a proceeding in the district court and the PTAB at the same time, covering the same topic, addressing a patent validity, that that doesn't really fulfill…

I think an obvious implication of that is that Congress has to step in. Am I wrong?

One of the things I think we need to do is to provide rapid and targeted support.

I want to thank Ranking Member Thom Tillis and his staff for putting this hearing together on a consensus basis.

I had expected to come in, coming in on a train today, to see a different Chairman up here.

Thank you for that fulsome introduction of Magistrate Judge Jennifer Hall.

What clarifications or updates to existing statutes would help create a reliable environment for private investments and job creation in the recycling sector?

We are putting ourselves in the strongest possible position to navigate the challenges of today and tomorrow together.

Should we require manufacturers to pay into municipal collection programs?

This hearing will come to order. We are here today to conduct oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The FY24 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill just got voted out of the Appropriations Committee by a broad bipartisan margin, and it includes a $560 million new economic resilience initiative to expand investments in critical…

Thank you, Chairman Menendez, for leading this effort to focus on the tools that we need to help strengthen our ability to respond to economic coercion.

I think we certainly agree that the current framework for determining which inventions are eligible for patent protection is just not working.

I am grateful to my colleagues from Michigan and Pennsylvania for being here promptly at the beginning of the hearing.

Together, I am confident that we can rise to the gravity of this challenge, and as we say in Delaware, seize the day, or Carper diem.