Patents key, not copyright.
Mossoff et al. 21 – Professor of Law at George Mason University, J.D. from the University of Chicago; Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, PhD and LLM in Law from the European University Institute.
Adam Mossoff, Urška Petrovčič, Thomas J. Duesterberg, and Harold Furchtgott-Roth, “Comment on National Institute of Standards and Technology Study on China's Involvement in Standard Development Organizations,” The Hudson Institute, 12-07-2021, https://www.hudson.org/technology/comment-on-national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-study-on-china-s-involvement-in-standard-development-organizations
To promote both U.S. leadership in the development of next-generation technologies and continued participation by U.S. companies in SDOs in the efficient commercial deployment of these technologies, it is imperative that the U.S. secure reliable and effective patent protections for technological innovations. Until recently, the U.S. was recognized globally as having the “gold standard” patent system.9 David Kappos, former Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, once observed that the U.S. patent system was “the greatest innovation engine the world has ever known.” 10 The U.S. patent system spurred the innovations that produced the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, the computer and biotech revolutions of the twentieth century, and the mobile revolution of the early twenty-first century.11 Unfortunately, it is in doubt that the U.S. patent system can properly foster next-generation inventions in artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things, 5G, and other innovations that will be the subject of technological standards set by SDOs.