On World Intellectual Property Day, Think About the Blessings of IP
World IP Day, April 26 this year, marks an apt time to consider the ways intellectual property makes our lives better. IP—patents,...
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James Edwards
Mar 22, 20223 min read
The Patent Eligibility “Quagmire”
A federal judge calls the status of patent-eligible subject matter “validity goulash.” A former chief judge of the Federal Circuit Court...
James Edwards
Mar 7, 20223 min read
How to Retain U.S. Foundational R&D Leadership Over China
The bottom line: China aims to overtake the United States’ global innovation lead, by hook or by crook. China has for some time pursued a...
James Edwards
Feb 8, 20225 min read
Conservatives to DOJ: Don’t Mess Up SEPs
The public comment period on the Justice Department’s “Draft Policy Statement [DPS] on Licensing Negotiations and Remedies for...
James Edwards
Feb 1, 20223 min read
BBB’s Dead; Socialist Price Controls Still Breathe
One thing that remains on the table for many in Congress and the White House is certain to damage some treasures of America’s health...
James Edwards
Jan 24, 20223 min read
A Better Way to Go After Big Tech
You’d expect conservatives to approach reining in Big Tech consistent with free enterprise, property rights and innovation principles....
James Edwards
Jan 10, 20223 min read
Tesla, Westinghouse and Electrification
One-hundred twenty-five years ago, foundational invention culminated with the arrival of alternating electrical current’s successful...
James Edwards
Dec 10, 20213 min read
The Grinches Stealing America’s Christmas
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are behaving a lot like the unrepentant Grinch Who Stole Christmas —...
James Edwards
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Restore American Inventing? Or Gut American Invention?
Let’s get one thing straight: The “Restoring the America Invents Act” will further weaken U.S. patent reliability and certainty. This as...
James Edwards
Sep 13, 20213 min read
Our Founders’ Inventive Constitutional Brilliance
“The Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and...
James Edwards
Aug 12, 20214 min read
Unhappy 10th Birthday, AIA
Ten years ago, Congress enacted a highly destructive law undoing important elements of the wildly successful, property rights-based,...
James Edwards
Jul 13, 20213 min read
E.O.: Assaulting Property Rights Is a Strange Way to Promote Competition
President Biden’s July 9 executive order, “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” purports to promote competition. Let’s just...
James Edwards
Jun 22, 20212 min read
U.S. Voters to Pols: Drop the Radicalism
It turns out the American people aren’t as generous with other people’s property or with their hard-earned tax dollars as some...
James Edwards
Jun 14, 20213 min read
5G: Made Possible by Property Rights
With ads for 5G services and new 5G-enabled smartphones and other devices on the rise, it’s worth considering the role property rights...
James Edwards
May 14, 20213 min read
11 Million U.S. Patents . . . and China’s Rising
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office recently awarded the 11 millionth U.S. patent. It went to inventors of a medical device for...
James Edwards
Mar 23, 20213 min read
Bayh-Dole and March-In
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is completing something begun in 2018 under its Return on Investment Initiative. The...
James Edwards
Feb 26, 20213 min read
WTO and Property Theft That Aids China
It isn’t surprising when nations with little respect for property rights use multilateral bodies to take away someone’s property. It may...
James Edwards
Jan 19, 20214 min read
Getting Antitrust Right
Some the most important and beneficial achievements of the Trump administration have occurred at the crossroads of antitrust and...
Prof. Adam Mossoff
Dec 22, 20204 min read
Business Methods Patents: A Key Part of American Patents from 1790 to Today
The omnibus FY2021 appropriations bill omits language that special interests wanted badly. A concerted lobbying effort has sought to...
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...
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