To increase society’s supply of pickles, increase monetary demand for them. Increasing the supply of America’s most important product — innovation — is more complicated. It involves money that fertilizes a culture that nurtures talented individuals. Solving… Read More »
In celebration of last month’s World IP Day, Senate Judiciary Committee Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Patrick Leahy expressed his support for a determined effort to encourage more individuals and small companies across this country to invent new technologies… Read More »
The United States and China are engaged in a new Cold War, and China intends to win. While China has increased its techno-totalitarianism against Hong Kong and its own citizens, a greater threat to America and the… Read More »
U.S. policymakers apparently do not recognize the connection between imprudent court decisions and artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies that will determine our nation’s security and economic strength in the 21st century. But their counterparts in… Read More »
For many of us visions of the future have often included images of robots who can think on their own and perform tasks. In some visions, those robots were in a Jetson’s style universe with floating objects and… Read More »
Intellectual property (IP) rights in general and patents in particular are commonly characterized as, at best, a necessary “monopoly” granted to correct weak private incentives to invest in generating innovations that can be easily imitated by others. In… Read More »
For more than a decade, almost every branch of the federal government has taken steps to restrain what has been perceived to be an “explosion” of patent issuance and litigation. The results have been palpable. A patent… Read More »
For a change, some good news: The Journal reports that the Biden administration is in the early stages of building a “tech alliance” against China. The Trump administration began working with the Netherlands to block the sale… Read More »
Each year, Black History Month allows us to reflect on so many great Black Americans who’ve contributed to the success of our nation. We reflect on the contributions of many well-known and not so well-known Black Americans…. Read More »
After seven years trying to make it as an entrepreneur, Josh Malone’s dreams and savings were running dry. With a growing family, urgency was mounting for his return to the safety and stability of corporate life. Desperate… Read More »
