Imagine you’re an inventor. After investing your life savings, and spending countless late nights refining your product, you’ve managed to turn your good idea into a thriving small business. But then, a bigger company comes along, copies… Read More »
If you really wanted to beat China as global leader in emerging technologies, you’d be sure your top innovators had the property-rights and free-market incentives and rewards to win that competition. But the European Commission (EC) is… Read More »
The American inventor is under attack, and it’s coming from our government. Lawmakers harp about patents as “monopolies” that purportedly prop up prices; the executive supports a grand technology giveaway as pandemic relief; and the judiciary has… Read More »
Litigation finance firms provide non-recourse loans to commercial parties with lawsuits, ensuring corporate defendants can’t use their wealth and access to top-flight attorneys to intimidate and crush smaller competitors. In this context, large corporations and the US… Read More »
The European Union is reportedly considering sweeping new regulationsfor the licensing and litigation of standard essential patents (SEPs), which make fair-minded observers wonder whether any sane adults are in charge at the European Commission (EC). The EU’s… Read More »
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has just rejected a petition that asked the federal government to misuse a decades-old law. This petition sought the government to impose de facto price controls on a widely available medicine…. Read More »
Many politicians assume that the key to successful innovation is government research funding — the more, the better. The reality, however, is more complex.Government certainly has a key role to play in funding basic science, and the… Read More »
In the race for global technology leadership, China understands that it needs more inventors to compete with the United States and has worked systematically to expand its capacity to innovate. That’s why China is eating America’s lunch… Read More »
The House of Representatives recently established a bipartisan committee to study the economic and security threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party. At the committee’s first hearing, Chairman Mike Gallagher, R-WI, called China’s rise an “existential struggle.” This is… Read More »
For more than a century, startups have been critical to U.S. technological advancement. They could not exist today without venture-capital funding, which enables them to form and grow. So it’s alarming that venture fundraising is now at… Read More »
