Speeches
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet will hold a field hearing on Friday, February 2, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. PT in Los Angeles, California.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Courts, Intellectual Property & the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Congressman Hank Johnson delivered the following remarks at the hearing titled: Intellectual Property and Strategic Competition with China: Part 3 - IP Theft, Cybersecurity, and AI Hearing on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023:
I would like to begin by thanking my colleague, Chairman Issa, for bringing together experts from both sides of this important conversation. Thank you also to our witnesses for being willing to lend us your time and your considerable knowledge today. I feel privileged to serve as Ranking Member of a subcommittee that supports creators and keeps our American innovation system strong.
Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, gave the following remarks at a field hearing in Nashville, Tenn. titled: "Five Years Later – The Music Modernization Act"
Ranking Member Johnson's Opening Statement
The case that will come before the Supreme Court this week — Moore v. Harper — embodies the crossroads that we confront as a country. The obscure, strained interpretation of the Constitution that the petitioners are promoting in this case may very well attract the attention and the votes of several Supreme Court justices, if not a majority.
Congressman Johnson, a senior member of the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, delivered he following speech at the Rockdale County Transportation Summit on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at the Costley Mill Event Center in Conyers, GA.
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011—or AIA— made the most fundamental changes to the patent laws that our country had not seen since the Patent Act of 1952. One of those fundamental changes was the creation of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—an adjudicatory body within the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
SPRING ACADEMY DAY REMARKS 2022 | THE HONORABLE HANK JOHNSON | UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE | SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2022
I am honored to stand before you today as we celebrate Academy Day 2022. It's been a while since we've all been in person in this way, so it's good to see everyone this morning. Welcome.