Intellectual Property

Rent Check Where do "new" ideas come from? IP hawks tend to treat innovation as a series of leaps and bounds, in reality it's a process of incremental change and [...]

“The only original idea was Adam’s” goes the old saying, referring to how rare a truly “original’ idea is. Like Newton, innovators and creative types “stand[] on the shoulders of [...]

Rent Check New Research: the distribution of rents to workers in the form of wages for firms with high-value patents amount to about 30 cents for every dollar of patent-induced [...]

“Cui bono?”  is a Latin phrase that translates most closely to “who benefits?” Usually brought up in the context of a criminal proceeding, we can also ask cui bono? in [...]

Rent Check 1. Trump Administration goes after IP "theft" from China. 2. Even YouTube will have a tough time enforcing Article 13. News 1. EU court rules against Dutch company [...]

Intellectual property hawks, President Trump in particular, have a bone to pick with China. Beyond the president’s familiar talking point that Chinese workers are “stealing” American jobs, he’s also among [...]

After the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market passed late this summer, large tech companies are trying to figure out how to comply with the Directive’s many [...]

1. Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker's IP scam. 2. Starry Night house couple sues artist for control over copyright.

When evaluating the character of a man, H.L. Mencken offered the following advice: “Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known [...]

The Captured Economy is divided into four relatively isolated policy areas, which makes it all the more exciting when one issue crosses over into two separate policy domains. Remember the [...]