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James Edwards
Feb 26, 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
Jan 19, 20214 min read
Getting Antitrust Right
Some the most important and beneficial achievements of the Trump administration have occurred at the crossroads of antitrust and...

Prof. Adam Mossoff
Dec 22, 20204 min read
Business Methods Patents: A Key Part of American Patents from 1790 to Today
The omnibus FY2021 appropriations bill omits language that special interests wanted badly. A concerted lobbying effort has sought to...
James Edwards
Oct 3, 20202 min read
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...
Josh Malone, inventor
Sep 11, 20203 min read
The Maladministrative State and Property Theft
This summer, U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a very direct speech at the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum. Mr. Barr aimed to...
James Edwards
Aug 20, 20202 min read
A Victory for Dynamic Competition
The Ninth Circuit handed the Federal Trade Commission its head in its unanimous reversal of the FTC’s “antitrust adventurism” against...
James Edwards
Jul 2, 20203 min read
RSC Paper Includes Checking IP Theft
China and other rogue nations haven’t let a global pandemic stop them from aggressively seeking advantage against the United States and...
James Edwards
May 27, 20202 min read
A Protection, Not a Weapon
Sometimes it takes a crisis to show who believes in private property rights and who doesn’t. Even in America, there are those who demand...
James Edwards
May 15, 20202 min read
Technical Standards and U.S. Security
As 5th generation wireless technology rapidly develops, standards-development organizations weigh technological contributions from...
James Edwards
Apr 23, 20204 min read
America’s Postpandemic Pivot
If the American people have learned anything from the COVID-19 tribulations, it’s that China holds too many cards, China can’t be trusted...
James Edwards
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Property Rights Key for COVID Cures
It should be hard to miss, but America’s biomedical innovators and industry — that is, private companies putting their own or investors’...
James Edwards
Feb 10, 20203 min read
Stealing Our Innovation Wholesale
U.S. Customs authorities caught a Chinese researcher at Boston’s Logan Airport trying to sneak eight vials of stolen biological material...
James Edwards
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Do Innovators Give Up Their IP Rights? Implementer Panel Says Yes
A recent Washington panel I attended attempted to justify the Federal Trade Commission’s dangerous, damaging, seriously questionable case...
James Edwards
Jan 10, 20203 min read
Alexa, What’s “Efficient Infringement?”
“Alexa, who invented wireless speakers?” “Are you sure it wasn’t Sonos, the Santa Barbara company that owns 100 patents on this...
James Edwards
Dec 21, 20192 min read
New Policy Affirms Property Rights
Trump administration innovation agency officials have issued a new joint policy statement affirming the right of certain crucial patents...
James Edwards
Dec 16, 20192 min read
Snatching Private Property Is Expropriation
What if the government “snatch[ed] their patents” from American companies? That’s how Sen. Kamala Harris told voters she’d lower drug...
James Edwards
Oct 16, 20192 min read
Injunctions: Too Much and Too Little
In policy and legal circles, judicial injunctions have gotten a bad reputation. Not totally without justification, with judicial...
James Edwards
Oct 2, 20192 min read
First Steps Toward STRONGER Patent Rights
Congress is faintly showing signs of coming to the side of U.S. inventors. It’s about time. For three decades, Congress has helped to gut...
James Edwards
Aug 28, 20192 min read
9th Circuit Stay Is Pro-Property Rights
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted chipmaker Qualcomm’s requested stay in the firm’s appeal of a questionable federal...
James Edwards
Jul 19, 20192 min read
Big Step, Small Claims, the Little Guy
It’s tough for large copyright holders — motion picture studios, major recording labels, big publishing houses — to protect their...
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