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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
Dec 1, 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...
James Edwards
Nov 7, 20223 min read
Warning: PTAB Is Hazardous to America's Competitive Health
PTAB harms U.S. competitiveness. It undermines secure, private property rights vital to our competitiveness in innovation. The Patent...
James Edwards
Aug 25, 20223 min read
Lawmakers’ Light Shed on PTAB
Twin hearings in the U.S. Senate and House Intellectual Property Subcommittees recently drew insightful, important questions and thoughts...
James Edwards
Jul 9, 20223 min read
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,...
James Edwards
Apr 26, 20222 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 22, 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
Mar 7, 20223 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 8, 20225 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
Feb 1, 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 24, 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
Jan 10, 20223 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
Dec 10, 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 29, 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
Sep 13, 20213 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
Aug 12, 20214 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
Jul 13, 20213 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 22, 20212 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
Jun 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
May 14, 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
Mar 23, 20213 min read
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