By Mario H. Lopez, Hispanic Leadership Fund More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the array of challenges that it has wrought for Americans of all walks of life, one area that has met this unique challenge and demonstrated resiliency is our broadband networks. The Internet infrastructure has been largely successful in […]
Tag: patents
Consumers Pay When Patent Trolls Monetize ITC Loopholes
By Krisztina Pusok and Steve Pociask, American Consumer Institute The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has become an increasingly popular venue for patent complaints, allowing patent trolls to exploit the loopholes in ITC practice for financial gains. Unless the ITC’s statute or practice adjusts to better reflect the realities of modern products and innovation […]
Washington Beyond The Headlines: New Trade Deals Will Bolster Strong U.S. Economy
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor January 16, 2020 A BIG week in Washington! Impeachment staggers forward as the House finally sends articles of impeachment to the Senate. Of course, this is the government at work, so it’s all about process and now this will drag on for an indeterminate amount of time. […]
True Innovators Need Secure Patents for R&D
By James Edwards, Ph.D, Conservatives for Property Rights Remember how early mobile phones routinely dropped calls? Mobile devices today operate on better technology. The innovative system, called “code division multiple access,” supplanted an approach the telecommunications industry was considering as the underpinning for wireless communication. CDMA more efficiently uses airwaves to handle […]
Achieving Economic Security Depends on Assuring National Security
By James Edwards, Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights “Economic security is national security.” Different officials have made this statement over the years. Only, now the news has begun to catch up and validate the truth it expresses. Reports have proliferated, exposing various ways America’s competitors — particularly China and […]
TES Weekly Update: Russian Bear Gets Cozy In The Tropics
Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking). It seems the famous ursine avatar is sniffing around the Middle East and Africa — and Russia’s moves in these regions […]
Guess who’s at the bottom of the Property Rights Index
The Property Rights Alliance has released the latest edition of its annual Property Rights Index, rating countries on various metrics for property rights protections. Produced in partnership with the Foundation for Economic Freedom and Minimal Government Thinkers, a think tank in the Philippines, the index […]
SE Asian countries need to focus on knowledge economy
A global crossroads boasting young, tech-savvy populations and far-flung trade connections, Southeast Asia is well positioned to become an economic hub. But to do this national governments must first lay the groundwork by embracing policies designed to foster innovation and the knowledge economy, […]
America’s Patent Court Needs a Course Correction
By Nicholas A. Gravante Jr. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was created in 1982 to hear appeals in all cases involving patents, trademarks and copyrights. It is, simply put, the nation’s intellectual property court. Unfortunately, it is […]
How to improve access to medicines — and how NOT to
With the UN General Assembly convening in New York to discuss all manner of policy issues, one high-profile area of debate is the appropriate role of governments and regulators in ensuring that as many people as possible have access to the medicines they need. […]