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 […]
Tag: intellectual property
On vaccine, World Health Assembly putting cart before the horse
By Roger Bate, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) The World Health Assembly which begins today is the most important in living memory. Normally it lasts for a mind-numbingly boring week and addresses myriad issues, but this time it’s only taking two days, with the focus on Covid-19. NPR is setting this up as […]
Don’t Think Software Design Is An Artform? Just Look At Java
By Thomas Carey, Sunstein LLP In its current term, the Supreme Court will decide Google v. Oracle, a copyright case that has huge implications for the software industry. The smaller issue, potentially involving billions of dollars, is whether Google’s Android operating […]
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 […]
Don’t Beat Up on the NCAA: Players Are Compensated in Different Ways
By Ann Miller, George Mason University In late September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Fair Pay to Play Act into law. Under this state law, most postsecondary educational institutions and collegiate athletic organizations can no longer prohibit athletes from earning compensation from their “name, image, or likeness” being used in advertisements. This […]
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 […]
TES Weekly Update: Welcome to the Age of Tech Metals
Rare earths are just the beginning It’s no mistake that past ages of human history were named after metals. The ability to produce and use minerals has not only been the foundation of each era’s technology, but has also shaped society and […]
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 […]
U.S. and Europe must present united front to China
Any country which tries to confront China’s unfair trade policies by itself, including rampant theft of IP and anti-competitive practices, is probably doomed to failure given the sheer size of the Chinese economy — and this judgment also applies to the United States, wielding […]