Sen. Thillis on behalf of the chair, i will turn to our Witness Panel productions. Our first witness is professor of law at the Antonin Scalia school of law at george mason university. He has published extensively on ip law. Next, mark dean, cofounder of a medical device incubator. Mr. Dean is a coinventor on two hundred 50 issued and pending u. S. Patents. Then we have david jones, executive director of a coalition of innovative hightechnology Companies Like google, intel, microsoft and adobe. Then we will hear from david cap. He is director of the u. S. Patent and trademark office. If you all will stand very briefly so we can swear you in. Do you swear and affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth . Saint thank you all. You may be seated. Thank you Ranking Member tills and members of the subcommittee. In q4 this opportunity to speak with you today about the pressing need for reform of section 1 and why congress shoul
Now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. You use it loudly. How difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away . Now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. However, my father is a professor of history. So from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. So, yes. And you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff youve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. And then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. Yes, and the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. Yes, its, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. I think that is a very misogynist type of prayer. I think i became increasingly. Well, i certainly increasingly had the feeling that it wa
Naomi alderman, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. I want to start at the beginning. You were raised in a very traditional, observant orthodoxJewish Community in north london where, i think its fair to say, women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. Now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. You use it loudly. How difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away . Now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. However, my father is a professor of history. So from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. So, yes. And you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff youve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. And then the boys said, thank you, god, for no
Women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. Now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. You use it loudly. How difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away . Now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. However, my father is a professor of history. So from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. So, yes. And you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff youve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. And then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. Yes. And the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. Yes, its, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. I think that is a very misogynist type of prayer. I think i became
Good morning. My name is chairmans mark. Im a senior fellow with the Geoeconomics Center of Atlantic Council. I would like to welcome you to our next session where we are going to dig into development and finance, chinas lending, aid, its investments and what is being called the global south. Im going to use the moderators privilege and refer to low income and middle Income Countries. That seems to be a more neutral term than what we were using before. Real quickly, just to introduce the topic. We found a great deal today about a lot of the big picture aspects of chinas interaction with the developing world. And to think what were going to try to do here is sort of dig into the lifeblood of this interaction, which is money. The lending investment and a that china has offered to both low income and middle Income Countries over the past decade amounts to a vast sum, well over a trillion dollars. Based on a data statistics the commitment or even larger than that. Theres a lot of issues th