Christopher Coons

The last supplemental request included funding specifically to counter Wagner's influence in West Africa.

This is a region--more people have died in terrorist attacks in West Africa in the last 5 years than the rest of the world combined...

I think we need to stay on this and press both how the intelligence failure happened in Niger...

I think we need to fix this and not wait another year or two or three.

Thank you, Chairman Cardin. Ranking Member Risch, thank you for this hearing.

It is important to me that at a time when there seems to be bipartisan agreement, that protecting American invention and innovation should be a high priority--that we do our best at that.

That's music to my ears. I look forward to seeing you move swiftly in that direction.

Our first Subcommittee hearing was on foreign competitive threats to innovation, and it highlighted China's abusive practices.

I must say, I am struck by the reach of some of the trademark scams.

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

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

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

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.

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…

You got over 14,000 comments to the ANPRM, which speaks to the degree of awareness and engagement, and I think PTO regulations can address some of the concerns that I hear about PTAB.

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.

Thank you. Magistrate Hall, the District of Delaware sees some of the most complex commercial and patent cases...

Thank you. Mr. Laroski, Ms. Wang, you are both nominated to the Court of International Trade...

Congratulations to all of the nominees, and their families.

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.

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

Thank you for the passionate engagement you have always brought to these issues on behalf of the creative community.

This hearing will come to order. I'd like to thank all of our witnesses for participating today.