Moderator: Khushita Vasant

Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex in Washington, DC. She previously covered EU competition law in Brussels where she broke news on high-profile antitrust and merger investigations. She has covered the EU’s actions against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, to name a few. Now in the US, she closely tracks landmark antitrust lawsuits and investigations initiated by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission against some large digital platforms. She’s often in federal courts across the US to report on high-profile civil and criminal antitrust litigation, and on Capitol Hill to cover developments on a set of critical antitrust bills pending in Congress. Khushita specializes in coverage of intellectual property, with notable scoops on US policy developments and EU investigations in the field of standard-essential patents. Her articles on SEPs have been nominated for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Khushita previously wrote about monetary policy, and the bond and FX markets for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Mumbai.

The United States Cannot Afford Disarray as China Strengthens Its Biopharmaceutical Industry

By Sujai Shivakumar, Charles Wessner, and Julie Heng For years, China has played a leading role in manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients and generic drugs. While securing the supply chain for active pharmaceutical ingredients is increasingly recognized as a national security priority by policymakers, China’s growing role in biotechnological innovation has
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Explainer: A Brief History of the International IP Regime

By Julie Heng, Arrizka Faida, and Chris Borges In a globalized economy, businesses rely on rules protecting intellectual property (IP) to safeguard their ideas and products against counterfeiting, piracy, and theft and to forge international partnerships. To this end, the United States and its partners have long invested in a system of multilateral treaties and international
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ChinaTalk: Innovation Emergency with Trump 1.0’s Patent Director

On February 19th, CSIS Senior Adviser Andrei Iancu appeared on the ChinaTalk podcast to discuss how patents influence emerging technology innovation, how far AI and DOGE could push the current U.S. IP regime, if it matters that China issues more patents than the United States, and more. Listen to the
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