Thomas Kowalski is president and CEO of the Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute. Michael Douglas is executive director of the Texas Life-Sciences Collaboration Center. Patents are a fundamental building block of innovation: Inventors who commit time, energy… Read More »
In today’s world, innovation is the key to economic growth, and it’s no accident that here in the United States innovation is thriving. The thousands of engineers working at Qualcomm, mostly based in the U.S., pioneered the… Read More »
If you’re trying to handicap Thursday’s expected House vote on a sweeping patent reform bill, leave the party affiliations at the door. The measure’s chief steward is House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and the committee’s… Read More »
The U.S. House passed legislation to rein in some patent lawsuits that technology companies say could reduce the time they spend fighting such suits in court. The vote today was 325-91, with 27 Republicans and 64 Democrats… Read More »
Rep. Mel Watt likely knew that House passage Thursday of a bill designed to curb patent trolling was inevitable, but that didn’t stop him from taking one last stand against it during morning debate. The North Carolina… Read More »
WASHINGTON — Patent trolls. Corporate executives cringe at their very mention. These are no fairy-tale monsters hiding under bridges. The term applies to all-too-real people who blanket companies with baseless patent infringement claims. The growing problem has… Read More »
Kappos is an attorney with Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP, which represents major technological, telecom and healthcare firms. He was under secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office… Read More »
Richard A. Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Emeritus ESC and Senior Fellow the… Read More »
Rep. Rohrabacher represents California’s 48th Congressional District. He is vice chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. You might have thought a gun-shy Congress wouldn’t legislate sweeping reform efforts that will backfire on the whole… Read More »
This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate that explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. On Dec. 9, 2013, Future Tense will… Read More »
