The Maladministrative State and Property Theft
This summer, U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a very direct speech at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum. Mr. Barr aimed to...
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James Edwards
Aug 20, 20202 min read
A Victory for Dynamic Competition
The Ninth Circuit handed the Federal Trade Commission its head in its unanimous reversal of the FTC’s “antitrust adventurism” against...
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 27, 20202 min read
A Protection, Not a Weapon
Sometimes it takes a crisis to show who believes in private property rights and who doesn’t. Even in America, there are those who demand...
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
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Property Rights Key for COVID Cures
It should be hard to miss, but America’s biomedical innovators and industry — that is, private companies putting their own or investors’...
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
Jan 10, 20203 min read
Alexa, What’s “Efficient Infringement?”
“Alexa, who invented wireless speakers?” “Are you sure it wasn’t Sonos, the Santa Barbara company that owns 100 patents on this...
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
Dec 16, 20192 min read
Snatching Private Property Is Expropriation
What if the government “snatch[ed] their patents” from American companies? That’s how Sen. Kamala Harris told voters she’d lower drug...
James Edwards
Oct 16, 20192 min read
Injunctions: Too Much and Too Little
In policy and legal circles, judicial injunctions have gotten a bad reputation. Not totally without justification, with judicial...
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
Aug 28, 20192 min read
9th Circuit Stay Is Pro-Property Rights
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted chipmaker Qualcomm’s requested stay in the firm’s appeal of a questionable federal...
James Edwards
Jul 19, 20192 min read
Big Step, Small Claims, the Little Guy
It’s tough for large copyright holders — motion picture studios, major recording labels, big publishing houses — to protect their...
James Edwards
May 15, 20192 min read
An Antitrust Threat to Innovation
Legislation titled the “Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act” should be wonderful and help patients. But you can’t judge a bill by...
James Edwards
May 4, 20192 min read
A Senate Shotgun Blast at American Innovation
The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to fall down a slippery slope: the willingness to take someone else’s private property when...
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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