"I am grateful to my colleagues from Michigan and Pennsylvania for being here promptly at the beginning of the hearing."
"Thank you for that fulsome introduction of Magistrate Judge Jennifer Hall."
"This hearing will come to order. We are here today to conduct oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office."
"I want to thank Ranking Member Thom Tillis and his staff for putting this hearing together on a consensus basis."
"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."
"I think we certainly agree that the current framework for determining which inventions are eligible for patent protection is just not working."
"We invested a huge amount of time in trying to sort of square the circle of patent eligibility."
"I think an obvious implication of that is that Congress has to step in. Am I wrong?"
"I must say, I am struck by the reach of some of the trademark scams."
"Our first Subcommittee hearing was on foreign competitive threats to innovation, and it highlighted China's abusive practices."
"Thank you for the passionate engagement you have always brought to these issues on behalf of the creative community."
"We know that generative AI models need to be fed large datasets to learn how to generate images based on user prompts."