This Week in Intellectual Property, September 10th
Rent Check It's unlikely the USPTO will grant a patent to a non-human inventor, and that's likely for the best. News and Commentary In a guest post on PatentlyO, [...]
IP and AI
The future is now, and once-hypothetical questions about the ability of artificial intelligence to produce a patentable invention are no longer so. Back in April, computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s creation, [...]
Fair Use Fights Fake News
The “documentary” Plandemic and press conferences from “America’s Frontline Doctors,” to give two recent examples of COVID-19 misinformation, are unambiguously bad for the United States and the world. But they [...]
We Shouldn’t Count on the Fed
In March, as the COVID-19 pandemic came to a head in the United States, the Federal Reserve took action to shore up the financial sector in the face of an [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 25th
News and Commentary Kendrick Lamar is being sued by Terrance Hayes for the former's infringement Hayes' song "Loyalty" in a song of the same name. After initially prevailing in court [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, August 18th
Rent Check Moderna's failure to disclose the degree to which the government supported its vaccine is a scandal, but the silver lining to this incident is that it provides a [...]
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, [...]