Ensuring that USPTO remains a beacon of American innovation means not just reauthorizing fee setting authority, but but ensuring USPTO advisory committees can continue to advise the USPTO without interference by this administration. Two months after he was inaugurated, Trump's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick fired every member of the Patent Public Advisory Committee and the Trademark Public Advisory Committee. A year and a half later, they finally swore in the first new members. When Congress originally authorized fee setting authority under the America Invents act, we built in several … (10:14–10:30)
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