Press Releases

April 5 2011

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) hosted a U.S./China Biotechnology Examiner...

March 15 2010

David Kappos, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Under Secretary of Commerce...

March 3 2009

Patent reform should promote innovation and improve patent quality.

Letters, Testimony & Comments

June 27 2012
  The U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Attaché Program has had significant success and holds immense promise in helping to...
June 11 2012
On behalf of the 23 undersigned industrial, environmental, food and agricultural biotechnology companies, we write to express our...
March 25 2012
From BIO’s perspective, Supplemental Examination may have significant benefits, because patents that undergo this process are...
March 7 2012
Selected Excerpts: The vast majority of BIO’s members are small and medium sized enterprises that currently do not have products...
February 17 2012
If a poor patient in Nevada doesn’t have access to an advanced molecular diagnostic test, and right across the border in California...

Press Releases

June 29 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wednesday, June 29, 2011) - The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) released today a summary...
April 5 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Tuesday, April 05, 2011) - The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) hosted a U.S./China...
March 15 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Monday, March 15, 2010) - David Kappos, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Under...
October 8 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Thursday, October 08, 2009) - Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim...
July 8 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wednesday, July 08, 2009) - The following statement was issued today by the Biotechnology Industry...