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Special 301 Report Should Put America First
Conservatives for Property Rights has sent Congress a clear message: the 2025 Special 301 Report must be restored to its rightful purpose...

James Edwards
Mar 66 min read
Biden’s Legacy: Pretty Shabby
As Joe Biden’s presidency comes to an end, the time has come for taking stock of his performance in that position of public trust. Judged...

James Edwards
Jan 163 min read
Dear Santa: Bring Us Sound IP, Trade, Tax and Competition Policy
Oh, no! Only a few shopping days remain before Christmas. It’s vital that the United States outcompete China (and other adversaries and...

James Edwards
Dec 19, 20243 min read
More SEP Foolishness from the EU
The European Union is demonstrating how big-government bureaucracy by nature goes off the rails. Both procedurally and substantively, the...

James Edwards
Oct 7, 20243 min read
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...

James Edwards
Apr 22, 20243 min read
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
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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
Feb 27, 20244 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
Dec 26, 20232 min read
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
Oct 31, 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
Apr 25, 20233 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
"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
Aug 5, 20223 min read
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
Jun 6, 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
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
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
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
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
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 26, 20213 min read
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