NEWS/OPINION
“To be able to retain the fruits of one’s labor; to be able to see one’s work made permanent; to be able to bequeath one’s property to one’s posterity; to be able to rise from the natural condition of grinding poverty to the security of enduring accomplishment; to have something that is really one’s own — these are advantages difficult to deny.”
— Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence
ECONOMIC STANDARD
Technological Progress or Retreat
Technological and scientific successes still happen in America. But Biden's IRA attaches an anchor, becoming heavier year by year, to the pace of medical progress and wondrous health benefits Americans have enjoyed. Trump administration proposals, e.g., “most favored nation” reference pricing, patent valuation taxes, a patent royalty tax, will only slow U.S. innovation.
TOWNHALL
Conservatives to White House: Support PTO Rule
More than 20 conservative groups urged senior White House officials to support the PTO's proposed "Revision to Rules of Practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board." Special interests that have weaponized PTAB vigorously oppose the rule's improved fairness, efficiency and predictability in PTAB proceedings.
WASHINGTON TIMES
Protect the Founders' IP Vision
As we prepare to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, many Americans may not realize that the push to secularize our inherently Christian founding principles — including attacks on protections for the divinely endowed right to own the fruits of one’s labor — threatens the progress, creativity and competition inherent to our exceptional republic.
FOX BUSINESS
Conservatives Favor Radio Royalty Bill
CPR joined other conservative groups in support of the American Music Fairness Act. In a letter before Kiss's Gene Simmons testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, they endorsed requiring radio stations to pay royalties on the music they play.
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Call to Congress: Strengthen America w/ Strong Patents
For those in Congress who value innovation as the lifeblood of American economic and technological
leadership, the signals from bipartisan lawmakers and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could not be clearer. It's time for lawmakers, especially Republicans, to seize this opportunity and move forward boldly on propatent legislation.
FOX BUSINESS
UK Plan Hurts U.S. Innovators, Advantages China
The UK's government takeover of standard-essential patent licensing assaults U.S. participants in the standards-development process. It devalues superior technologies while handing China the ability to win with patent quantity over quality.
ECONOMIC STANDARD
IRA & MFN: Two Sides of the Same Coin
The Democrats' dreadful "Inflation Reduction Act" is causing consumers' health premiums, coinsurance, and deductibles to go up, while its Rx price controls reduce innovation. So why is Trump pushing socialist Most Favored Nation drug price controls?
TOWNHALL
DOGE Can Save $ on PTAB
PTAB has an open secret. Its own ends don't meet. In fact, PTAB’s failure to cover its own costs not only distorts the unit's decision making, PTAB gets subsidized by the PTO fees of patent applicants and patent owners.

CPR's James Edwards greets Coke Morgan Stewart, deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.