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 »
Just before the new year, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal weighed in on one of the most contentious intellectual property disputes in recent memory — and put her thumb on the scale in favor… Read More »
Google founder Larry Page’s first patent — U.S. Patent Number 6,285,999 — describes the search algorithm that later became one of the most powerful tools in human history. Mr. Page and his colleagues turned that patent, which… Read More »
A little-known Supreme Court decision is allowing corporations to violate the intellectual property rights of their rivals — and largely get away with it. Letting this precedent stand any longer would discourage America’s innovators, and by extension,… Read More »
Recent op-eds from the heads of tech industry groups and their Washington lobbyists have decried the U.S. International Trade Commission for doing its job — stopping products that infringe on U.S. patents from entering the country. Big… Read More »
