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...
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James Edwards
- Jul 9
- 3 min
Lawmakers’ Light Shed on PTAB
Twin hearings in the U.S. Senate and House Intellectual Property Subcommittees recently drew insightful, important questions and thoughts...
James Edwards
- Apr 26
- 2 min
On World Intellectual Property Day, Think About the Blessings of IP
World IP Day, April 26 this year, marks an apt time to consider the ways intellectual property makes our lives better. IP—patents,...
James Edwards
- Mar 22
- 3 min
The Patent Eligibility “Quagmire”
A federal judge calls the status of patent-eligible subject matter “validity goulash.” A former chief judge of the Federal Circuit Court...
James Edwards
- Mar 7
- 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
- Feb 8
- 5 min
Conservatives to DOJ: Don’t Mess Up SEPs
The public comment period on the Justice Department’s “Draft Policy Statement [DPS] on Licensing Negotiations and Remedies for...
James Edwards
- Feb 1
- 3 min
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
- Jan 24
- 3 min
A Better Way to Go After Big Tech
You’d expect conservatives to approach reining in Big Tech consistent with free enterprise, property rights and innovation principles....
James Edwards
- Jan 10
- 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
- Dec 10, 2021
- 3 min
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
- 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
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Aug 12, 2021
- 4 min
Unhappy 10th Birthday, AIA
Ten years ago, Congress enacted a highly destructive law undoing important elements of the wildly successful, property rights-based,...
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 22, 2021
- 2 min
U.S. Voters to Pols: Drop the Radicalism
It turns out the American people aren’t as generous with other people’s property or with their hard-earned tax dollars as some...
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
- Mar 23, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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
- Jan 19, 2021
- 4 min
Getting Antitrust Right
Some the most important and beneficial achievements of the Trump administration have occurred at the crossroads of antitrust and...
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