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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
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...
Tom DeWeese
May 29, 20213 min read
Why Property Rights Matter, Part 4: How to Fight Back
How do we effectively fight to restore private property and our freedom of movement in America? Most think that just getting a president...
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...
Tom DeWeese
Apr 28, 20213 min read
Why Property Rights Matter, Part 3: The Growing Attack on Property Rights
The increasing encroachment of government regulations, pontificating politicians and the enforcement of “social justice” schemes has led...
Tom DeWeese
Apr 6, 20213 min read
Why Property Rights Matter, Part 2: The Lost Definition of Private Property Rights
In the 1990s, an all-out assault on property rights was well underway, led by a radical environmental movement, resulting in massive...
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...
Tom DeWeese
Mar 9, 20213 min read
Why Private Property Matters, Part 1: Prosperity, Stability, Freedom
Most Americans tend to think of private property simply as a home – the place where the family resides, store their belongings and find...
James Edwards
Feb 15, 20213 min read
False Premises on Energy and Environment
A bright spot of the humming, gleaming pre-COVID U.S. economy was the remarkable performance of domestic oil and gas production and jobs...
James Edwards
Feb 2, 20213 min read
Price Controls By Any Other Name Smell as Rank
The famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet says “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Like that famous illustration,...
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...
James Edwards
Dec 30, 20204 min read
Private Innovation Versus Government Centralization, Part 2
For real technological progress, government can’t dictate it. Only private initiative, coupled with secure property rights, the rule of...
Josh Malone, inventor
Sep 11, 20203 min read
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...
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
Jun 19, 20203 min read
Ty Cobb and Coronavirus
What’s your impression of baseball star Ty Cobb? Probably not favorable. In 2015, a New York Times-bestselling book, Ty Cobb: A Terrible...
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
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
Mar 16, 20202 min read
OMB's Due Process Reform
March 16 marks the close of a public comment period for the latest commendable initiative by Russ Vought’s Office of Management and...
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
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...
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