Giant tech companies have come under a great deal of well-deserved criticism from across the political spectrum on a variety of concerns over their actions. On market power, privacy, political bias and disinformation, they are under a… Read More »
At a time when innovative American companies are moving technology forward at often dizzying rates, today’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be bent on thwarting that innovation by taking a giant leap backwards by pitting antitrust… Read More »
This fall, tens of millions of Americans will get vaccinated against influenza — but they won’t all experience a prick in the arm. Instead, many will take FluMist, the painless nasal flu vaccine. FluMist is just one… Read More »
For the last two centuries, our country was the world leader in technological innovation. Now, we are losing our ability to compete against Asia and Europe. The problem is not that Americans have become any less innovative… Read More »
The Ninth Circuit’s thorough reversal of a thoroughly irredeemable district court ruling represents a decisive win for U.S. innovators in cutting-edge technological fields. The Federal Trade Commission had brought a highly suspect antitrust lawsuit against wireless technology… Read More »
Every day, in many areas of life, there are important races occurring. There is a race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. There is a race to perfect cars that can drive themselves. There is a race… Read More »
Allowing a patent to be challenged an inexhaustible number of times has a subtle yet significant effect on the innovation ecosystem, argues Ericsson’s Matteo Sabattini Patents exist to provide innovators with the ability to be compensated for the… Read More »
Rather than allowing it a quiet death, the financial services industry is making a quiet effort to keep the Covered Business Methods (CBM) Program at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) alive. The special interest group… Read More »
Late last month the CEOs of four of the most powerful tech companies in the world — Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, which owns Google — testified before… Read More »
Today’s greatest challenges require our greatest ingenuity and innovative savvy. These require the greatest level of security and reliability of U.S. intellectual property rights. We’re talking about developing vaccines, tests, treatments and cures for COVID-19, foundational innovations… Read More »
