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James Edwards
Jan 163 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
Dec 19, 20243 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 2, 20243 min read
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...
James Edwards
Oct 16, 20244 min read
Regulation by Market or Government?
Postmodern “trust busters” resent that most people “Google it” when looking for something online. And that Google’s free search tools are...
James Edwards
Oct 7, 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
Sep 14, 20243 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
Jun 1, 20242 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
Apr 22, 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
Feb 27, 20244 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
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
Nov 21, 20232 min read
Breaking the Law That Led to 7,739 Patents and 1,000 Startups in 2022
The Biden administration is out to break the law. “The Interagency Working Group for Bayh-Dole will develop a framework for...
James Edwards
Oct 31, 20233 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
Sep 26, 20233 min read
IRA, Sen. Manchin and the Future of Drug Innovation
In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined “A Law That Isn’t Red or White—and Sure Isn’t Green,” Sen. Joe Manchin claims his...
James Edwards
Aug 31, 20234 min read
Reality of IRA Price Controls Is Dark
President Biden took major credit when he announced the first 10 medications to face price negotiations with the Centers for Medicare and...
James Edwards
Jul 1, 20233 min read
Sen. Sanders Wants to Repeat a Policy Failure
What do you get when you cross a self-proclaimed socialist with a U.S. Senate committee gavel? You get legislative power used to push...
James Edwards
May 17, 20233 min read
No Quiet Title for Innovators
The injustice Centripetal Networks has found itself facing at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board—AKA patent death squad—proves several...
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
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
Dec 23, 20223 min read
O Omnibus Congressional Christmas Tree
A $1.7 trillion appropriations and policy rider package funds the federal government through the remainder of fiscal 2023 and boosts the...
James Edwards
Dec 1, 20223 min read
IRA’s Price Controls Make False Promises, Will Deliver All Too Real Socialist Results
Newly enacted government price controls aren’t even implemented yet, but they’re already having an effect. But instead of forcing down...
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