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...
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James Edwards
- Apr 25
- 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
- Feb 21
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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...
James Edwards
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
Bill Would Punish Patent Owners, Let Infringers Off the Hook
You’d suppose a substantive patent system issue doesn’t relate to the National Defense Authorization Act. And you’d be right. You also...
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
- Jul 9, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 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
- Feb 8, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 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
- 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...
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