{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-issa-ip-hearing-explores-key-role-seps-us-competition-prc", "Chairman Issa IP Hearing Explores Key Role of SEPs in U.S. Competition with PRC", "2024-12-19", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Darrell Issa", "I000056", "issa.house.gov", "issa", "https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, held a hearing to discuss the role of standard essential patents (SEPs) in U.S. competition with the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC).\n\nThe hearing, part four covering strategic competition with China this Congress, investigated how American businesses and innovators are impacted by SEP policies and manipulative licensing practices in China. The hearing focused on the PRC\u2019s misuse of courts and technical processes, including by \u201cstacking the deck\u201d at standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and other abusive tactics aimed to undermine U.S. technological leadership in global infrastructure.\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s hearing was another chapter in the work we have done to examine and explain how the PRC manipulates global IP systems to gain an unfair advantage over the inventors and creators in America who follow the law and play by the rules,\u201d said Rep. Issa. \u201cFor years, the PRC has weaponized the standard-setting process and licensing practices to favor its own technologies and sideline American inventors. This lawfare threatens our country\u2019s businesses, markets, and economic leadership, and we must address it head-on to guarantee a level playing field and a fair fight.\u201d\n\nWitnesses for today\u2019s hearing included:\n\nWalter Copan, PhD, Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines\n\nKent Baker, Head of IP Strategy, Litigation & Licensing, u-blox America, Inc.\n\nThomas Cotter, Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School\n\nMark Cohen, Edison Fellow, Antonin Scalia School of Law, George Mason University", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-issa-ip-hearing-explores-key-role-seps-us-competition-prc"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8310871198773384, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}