Kamala Harris on Drug Patents
Healthcare costs were a major issue during the Democratic primaries, but drug pricing (and patents more generally) received comparatively little attention. But, with Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as [...]
The Moderna Model
On Tuesday, the federal government announced an agreement with Moderna to purchase 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna was one of the firms that testified before the House [...]
Internet Archive Files Response to Publishers’ Lawsuit
The Internet Archive has filed its answer to the lawsuit filed by four publishers (Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House) who allege copyright infringement of 127 works in IA’s [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 11th
News and Commentary The Cato Institute's Building Tomorrow podcast features Joel Waldfogel discussing how the digitization of the cultural economy, far from harming the growth and production of creative works, [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 4th
Rent Check The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the state of coronavirus vaccine research and deployment. Significant focus was placed on selling the drug at nonprofit [...]
Ban the Bar (For Now, at Least)
Given the balkanized nature of bar examination policies across the U.S., only two general statements can be made about the examination which determines one’s ability to practice law: they’re inefficient [...]
Thoughts on the E&C Vaccine Hearing
The Tuesday before last, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing with executives from the major pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, and Pfizer about the [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 28th
News and Commentary Mark Bilby makes an impassioned case for why research should be available to make the publishing industry a means of human progress by allowing the free flow [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 21st
News and Commentary In Forbes, Peter Suciu discusses latest social media crackdowns on copyright infringement, most recently by Twitch, pushed mostly by the RIAA in a manner reminiscent to the [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, July 14th
Rent Check Two bills to subsidize the production of semiconductors in the United States have been introduced in the Senate. This legislation would be complemented by placing any resultant patents [...]