On World IP Day, Appreciate IP's Economic Benefits
World Intellectual Property Day, Friday, April 26, offers the opportunity to reflect on the importance of intellectual property rights to...
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James Edwards
- Mar 27
- 3 min
Force-Feeding U.S. Electric Vehicles . . . Despite The Downsides
The Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate has come—in the form of an Environmental Protection Agency emissions rule. Biden’s...
James Edwards
- Feb 27
- 4 min
The Piracy Website-Blocking Solution
Digital commercial piracy costs the United States economy at least $29.2 billion a year. That is, if commercial piracy websites paid for...
James Edwards
- Dec 26, 2023
- 2 min
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
- Oct 31, 2023
- 3 min
Safeguarding Cutting-Edge U.S. Innovation
To hear U.S. importers of patent-infringing components and products tell it, the U.S. International Trade Commission serves the ulterior...
James Edwards
- Apr 25, 2023
- 3 min
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
- Aug 25, 2022
- 3 min
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 5, 2022
- 3 min
"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
- Jun 6, 2022
- 3 min
Biden’s Contributions to Rising Inflation
“. . . [T]he idea we’re going to be able . . . to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term, nor is...
James Edwards
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
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
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
Tesla, Westinghouse and Electrification
One-hundred twenty-five years ago, foundational invention culminated with the arrival of alternating electrical current’s successful...
James Edwards
- Sep 29, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
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 14, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Feb 15, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Dec 30, 2020
- 4 min
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...
James Edwards
- Dec 15, 2020
- 2 min
Private Innovation Versus Government Centralization, Part 1
Transformative technological advances usually occur by private initiative and investment. Occasionally government trying to centrally...
James Edwards
- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
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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