IP

4 days ago3 min read

Dear Santa: Bring Us Sound IP, Trade, Tax and Competition Policy

Oh, no! Only a few shopping days remain before Christmas. It’s vital that the United States outcompete China (and other adversaries and...

James Edwards

Dec 23 min read

PREVAIL Act Will Bolster Property Rights

Just before Congress recessed for Thanksgiving, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee moved the most proproperty-rights legislation in...

James Edwards

Oct 164 min read

Regulation by Market or Government?

Postmodern “trust busters” resent that most people “Google it” when looking for something online. And that Google’s free search tools are...

James Edwards

Oct 73 min read

More SEP Foolishness from the EU

The European Union is demonstrating how big-government bureaucracy by nature goes off the rails. Both procedurally and substantively, the...

James Edwards

Sep 143 min read

Crisis This Constitution Day

This Constitution Day, the Democratic presidential candidate is committed to government price controls and to marching in on the patents...

James Edwards

Jun 12 min read

Patent Suit Trends Aiding Infringers

A new study of patent litigation finds significant, troubling changes in U.S. patent litigation patterns Republicans and conservatives...

James Edwards

Apr 223 min read

On World IP Day, Appreciate IP's Economic Benefits

World Intellectual Property Day, Friday, April 26, offers the opportunity to reflect on the importance of intellectual property rights to...

James Edwards

Feb 274 min read

The Piracy Website-Blocking Solution

Digital commercial piracy costs the United States economy at least $29.2 billion a year. That is, if commercial piracy websites paid for...

James Edwards

Dec 26, 20232 min read

Coda on a Guardian of U.S. Innovation

The Biden administration has declined to hand Apple a “get out of jail free” card. That’s good for U.S. innovation leadership....

James Edwards

Nov 21, 20232 min read

Breaking the Law That Led to 7,739 Patents and 1,000 Startups in 2022

The Biden administration is out to break the law. “The Interagency Working Group for Bayh-Dole will develop a framework for...

James Edwards

Oct 31, 20233 min read

Safeguarding Cutting-Edge U.S. Innovation

To hear U.S. importers of patent-infringing components and products tell it, the U.S. International Trade Commission serves the ulterior...

James Edwards

Sep 26, 20233 min read

IRA, Sen. Manchin and the Future of Drug Innovation

In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined “A Law That Isn’t Red or White—and Sure Isn’t Green,” Sen. Joe Manchin claims his...

James Edwards

Aug 31, 20234 min read

Reality of IRA Price Controls Is Dark

President Biden took major credit when he announced the first 10 medications to face price negotiations with the Centers for Medicare and...

James Edwards

Jul 1, 20233 min read

Sen. Sanders Wants to Repeat a Policy Failure

What do you get when you cross a self-proclaimed socialist with a U.S. Senate committee gavel? You get legislative power used to push...

James Edwards

May 17, 20233 min read

No Quiet Title for Innovators

The injustice Centripetal Networks has found itself facing at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—AKA patent death squad—proves several...

James Edwards

Apr 25, 20233 min read

World IP Day Points to IP’s Role in Competitiveness

World Intellectual Property Day for 2023 is April 26. The forms of private property rights most closely connected with innovation deserve...

James Edwards

Feb 21, 20233 min read

SERA Smiles on Users, Frowns on Innovators

A fiendish scheme to advantage implementers over innovators is floating on K Street. The “Standard Essential Royalty Act” would give a...

James Edwards

Dec 23, 20223 min read

O Omnibus Congressional Christmas Tree

A $1.7 trillion appropriations and policy rider package funds the federal government through the remainder of fiscal 2023 and boosts the...

James Edwards

Dec 1, 20223 min read

IRA’s Price Controls Make False Promises, Will Deliver All Too Real Socialist Results

Newly enacted government price controls aren’t even implemented yet, but they’re already having an effect. But instead of forcing down...

James Edwards

Nov 7, 20223 min read

Bill Would Punish Patent Owners, Let Infringers Off the Hook

You’d suppose a substantive patent system issue doesn’t relate to the National Defense Authorization Act. And you’d be right. You also...

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