CPIP’s Mark Schultz authored an excellent essay today in TechPolicyDaily.com advocating intellectual property as a source of personal and economic freedom. The essay, “A Free Market Perspective on Intellectual Property Rights,” […]
[Archived Post] Two More Reasons to Think Twice Before Changing Our Patent System
By Steven Tjoe Today, misguided fears of an explosion of patent litigation and the specter of the so-called “patent troll” problem continue to influence the popular perception of patent policy. […]
[Archived Post] The Failure of the DMCA Notice and Takedown System
Today, CPIP released an important new policy brief, The Failure of the DMCA Notice and Takedown System: A Twentieth Century Solution to a Twenty-First Century Problem, by Professor Bruce Boyden […]
[Archived Post] Copyright is Still Essential to a Free Market in Creative Works
By Matthew Barblan In the modern digital era, strong copyright protection is still an essential component of a flourishing free market in creative works. Viewed properly as a property right […]
[Archived Post] Mercatus’s Unhelpful Business Advice to the Creative Industries
By Mark Schultz Washington, D.C. is full of smart people with great ideas about how other people should run their lives and businesses. The more innocent of first hand knowledge […]
[Archived Post] Guest Post by Richard Epstein: The Dangerous Adventurism of the United States Trade Representative – Lifting the Ban against Apple Products Unnecessarily Opens a Can of Worms in Patent Law
The Dangerous Adventurism of the United States Trade Representative: Lifting the Ban against Apple Products Unnecessarily Opens a Can of Worms in Patent Law Richard A. Epstein In ordinary times, […]
[Archived Post] Guest Post by Wayne Sobon: A Line in the Sand on the Calls for New Patent Legislation
On June 9-11, the IP Business Congress sponsored by Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) hosted a debate on the resolution: “This house believes that the America Invents Act should be a legislative […]
[Archived Post] A Critique of a Recent Article Which Found That Sequence Patents Cover the Entire Human Genome
By Professor Christopher Holman [The following is a blog posting by Christopher Holman, a patent law scholar at UMKC School of Law, that he originally posted on April 5, 2013 […]
[Archived Post] Summary of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons by Professor Chris Newman
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, U.S. Supreme Court, decided March 19, 2013 Chris Newman Assistant Professor of Law George Mason University School of Law This is best described as […]
[Archived Post] Scratching my Head Over the SHIELD Act
By Michael Risch [The following is a blog posting by Michael Risch, a patent law scholar at Villanova Law School, that he originally posted on March 10, 2013 at the […]