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The Friends of the Institute of Education Sciences, consisting of 30 organizations including AAU, sent a letter to House and Senate LHHS leadership to request $670 million for the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences.
FY20 | LettersFriends of IES, a coalition of organizations including AAU, sent a letter urging Congress to reach an agreement to raise the discretionary budget caps and provide $670M for IES in FY20.
FY20 | Federal Budget | Department of Education | LettersThe Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, Association of University Technology Managers, and Council on Governmental Relations today released a statement supporting the introduction of the STRONGER Patents Act in the U.S. Senate.
Patents | Press ReleasesAAU joined APLU in a letter asking the White House Office of Management & Budget to prioritize research and higher education funding in the Administration's FY20 budget.
Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | FY20 | LettersAAU, APLU, COGR, AUTM, and AAMC developed a series of recommendations for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the Inter Partes Review (IPR) process and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings.
Patents | Intellectual Property | RecommendationThe study, which sensibly attempts to draw distinctions among the widely varied business models of actors in the patent system, supports our long-held position that any efforts to reduce abusive litigation practices must be narrowly tailored to address the small minority of patent holders that are…
Patents | Intellectual Property | StatementsAAU thanks Representative Stivers (R-OH) and Bill Foster (D-IL) for introducing the STRONGER Patents Act, bipartisan legislation that would effectively crack down on abuses of the U.S. patent system while taking steps to improve that system.
Patents | Technology Transfer | Intellectual Property | Press ReleasesThe Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging the passage of a bipartisan, bicameral budget agreement that will raise the FY20 and FY21 defense and non-defense discretionary spending caps.
Federal Budget | FY20 | FY21 | LettersA group of 13 coalitions, nine of which AAU is a member, today sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to work toward a bipartisan agreement to raise the Budget Control Act’s budget caps for FY20 and 21. The letter asserts that “a bipartisan agreement is needed to permit robust federal…
Federal Budget | FY20 | FY21 | Agency Budgets | LettersA letter was sent to the Senate Chairman Jerry Moran and Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen requesting the maximum possible increase in funding for FY20 from FY19 levels for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
FY20 | National Science Foundation | Federal Budget | Letters