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...
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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
Jul 96 min read
Fetterman Out to End Single-Family Zoning
Senator John Fetterman and Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester have introduced in both Houses of Congress the “Reducing Regulatory...
James Edwards
Jun 283 min read
Bricks Tumble from Administrative State’s Walls
The latest greatest hits at the U.S. Supreme Court further curb the excesses of the Administrative State by restoring an important aspect...
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
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
May 30, 20233 min read
Half a Loaf Reagan Would Have Taken
Is the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the vehicle for dealing with the federal debt limit and avoiding a fiscally irresponsible default by...
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
Mar 16, 20233 min read
Congress, Supreme Court One-Two Punch for WOTUS, Admin State
In the latest round of Administrative State ping-pong, Congress has taken the first step toward disapproving an Obama-Biden-era EPA rule...
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
Oct 18, 20223 min read
Property Rights on Midterm Ballot
Whether you realize it or not, property rights are on the ballot in the midterm elections. Taxes, redistribution of wealth, private...
James Edwards
Sep 22, 20222 min read
Property Rights on SCOTUS Docket
On the first Monday this October, the opening day of the U.S. Supreme Court’s next session, the high court will hear oral argument in...
James Edwards
Aug 5, 20223 min read
"Build Back Manchin" Is Inflationary Tax-and-Spend
From a property rights perspective, the Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill that Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer brokered turns out...
James Edwards
Apr 15, 20222 min read
CPR Joins Amicus Brief in WOTUS Case
In 2007, Idaho couple Michael and Chantell Sackett prepared to build a house in an existing subdivision. They broke ground and began...
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
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
Nov 18, 20212 min read
Wait for a CBO Reality Check on Budget Reconciliation
Voting on the budget reconciliation bill without having a cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office, which House Democrats are...
James Edwards
Nov 2, 20213 min read
Failed Math of “Build Back Broker”
If you thought budget reconciliation — a falsely advertised $3.5 trillion but actually more like $5 trillion price tag...
James Edwards
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Lessons from Messing with Medicare
In 1989, a powerful Washington politician messed with Medicare. Grandma and Grandpa weren’t happy. The guy who was untouchable in the...
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...
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