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James Edwards
Feb 15, 20213 min read
False Premises on Energy and Environment
A bright spot of the humming, gleaming pre-COVID U.S. economy was the remarkable performance of domestic oil and gas production and jobs...
James Edwards
Dec 30, 20204 min read
Private Innovation Versus Government Centralization, Part 2
For real technological progress, government can’t dictate it. Only private initiative, coupled with secure property rights, the rule of...
James Edwards
Dec 15, 20202 min read
Private Innovation Versus Government Centralization, Part 1
Transformative technological advances usually occur by private initiative and investment. Occasionally government trying to centrally...
James Edwards
Oct 3, 20202 min read
Study: Weak Patents Drive Away VCs
Among its intense assaults on private property rights, the Obama-Biden administration abused regulatory powers to weaken our industrial...
James Edwards
Jul 2, 20203 min read
RSC Paper Includes Checking IP Theft
China and other rogue nations haven’t let a global pandemic stop them from aggressively seeking advantage against the United States and...
James Edwards
May 15, 20202 min read
Technical Standards and U.S. Security
As 5th generation wireless technology rapidly develops, standards-development organizations weigh technological contributions from...
James Edwards
Apr 23, 20204 min read
America’s Postpandemic Pivot
If the American people have learned anything from the COVID-19 tribulations, it’s that China holds too many cards, China can’t be trusted...
James Edwards
Feb 22, 20202 min read
NEPA Regulatory Procedural Relief
Regulatory review delayed is property rights denied. Regulatory takings, both de facto (e.g., Obama’s Waters of the United States...
James Edwards
Feb 10, 20203 min read
Stealing Our Innovation Wholesale
U.S. Customs authorities caught a Chinese researcher at Boston’s Logan Airport trying to sneak eight vials of stolen biological material...
James Edwards
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Do Innovators Give Up Their IP Rights? Implementer Panel Says Yes
A recent Washington panel I attended attempted to justify the Federal Trade Commission’s dangerous, damaging, seriously questionable case...
James Edwards
Dec 21, 20192 min read
New Policy Affirms Property Rights
Trump administration innovation agency officials have issued a new joint policy statement affirming the right of certain crucial patents...
James Edwards
Oct 2, 20192 min read
First Steps Toward STRONGER Patent Rights
Congress is faintly showing signs of coming to the side of U.S. inventors. It’s about time. For three decades, Congress has helped to gut...
James Edwards
Sep 18, 20192 min read
America’s WOTUS Nightmare Is Over
Borrowing from President Gerald Ford, the long national WOTUS nightmare is finally over. The Trump administration has repealed this...
James Edwards
Aug 13, 20194 min read
Leftist Threats to Property Rights
A free economy is a terrible thing to waste. That and the high standard of living, the time- and labor-saving advances, the dynamic...
James Edwards
Jun 24, 20192 min read
New Strategy for Strategic Minerals
If you care about American military superiority, cutting-edge technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines or U.S. leadership...
James Edwards
Mar 29, 20192 min read
Our Only Option With China: Winning
As U.S.-China trade negotiations proceed, the single most important thing American negotiators must secure is an air-tight, enforceable...
James Edwards
Mar 14, 20192 min read
Timely Principles
Congress has received an open letter stating principles that should direct policymakers on intellectual property issues. More than 70...
James Edwards
Feb 7, 20192 min read
An American Innovator and Property Rights
Private property rights are inherent rights like life and liberty. They’re critical to an individual’s, a company’s and a nation’s...
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