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Following My Father One Hundred Years Later

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On the 100th anniversary of my father Ronald Cohen’s birth, I look back at two public-health innovations he helped develop: a blocked-flue safety control designed to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning in New York City tenements in the 1950s, and a pre-World Wide Web computerized emergency-response network for hazardous-materials incidents in New Jersey in the 1980s. His experience also taught me an early lesson about patents: making an invention available for the public good does not mean that its inventor should go unrecognized. Looking back, I realize that my career protecting innovation followed my father’s work in public health more closely than I once understood.

My Reflections on Testifying Before Congress – 2023

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Over the course of the last three months, I spoke at a trifecta of Congressional hearings: the House Judiciary Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Congressional US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Before I had testified I was pessimistic about the prospects for positive IP-related legislation in our national competitive interests. I am now mildly optimistic that Congress can pass necessary IP legislation if both parties in Congress and the Administration work together.