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The Council of Governmental Relations (COGR) has announced the appointment of Matt Owens as its incoming President, effective March 2023. Owens brings extensive experience from his current role as Executive Vice President and Vice President for Federal Relations at the Association of American Universities (AAU), where he has provided strategic leadership and overseen federal relations. With a two-

COGR and other higher education associations released a statement expressing the view that bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate, seeking to address abusive litigation practices of patent trolls while protecting the integrity of our patent system, was a substantial improvement over the pending House version (HR 9).

The document announces the issuance of a memorandum by Undersecretary of Defense John J. Young, Jr., which affirms the Department of Defense’s policy to avoid restricting publication or dissemination of results from DOD-funded basic and applied research, except in cases where such research is classified or otherwise legally restricted. This policy clarification follows concerns highlighted in a ne