Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Proposal on Copyright Office ReformWashington, D.C. – Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) today issued the following joint statement after the announcement that Maria Pallante, the former Register of Copyrights, will be leaving the U.S.

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) introduced the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act (H.R.

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley are calling on the Justice Department to explain its role in advising the Obama Administration in its plan to relinquish authority of key internet domain name functions.  In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the chairmen express concern abo

Chairman Goodlatte: When we look at the array of agencies and departments within the federal government, only a certain number carry out a mission that is explicitly called for in the Constitution. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), at the Department of Commerce, is one such agency.

Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee has announced its schedule for the week of September 12-16, 2016. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1311:00 a.m. | Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil JusticeHearing on: 

“The transition of the IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community is a serious, groundbreaking, and potentially unalterable action.”Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), U.S.

Director Michelle Lee to testify before the CommitteeWashington, D.C.  – On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 1:00 p.m., Director of the U.S.