March 15, 2013

The SHIELD Act: When Bad Economic Studies Make Bad Laws

Adam Mossoff

Earlier this month, Representatives Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz picked up the gauntlet from President Obama’s comments on February 14 at a Google-sponsored Internet Q&A on Google+ that “our efforts…

Intellectual Property

February 25, 2013

Comment, Technological Transition of the Nation's Comm. Infrastructure

Geoffrey A. Manne & Berin Szoka

AT&T's petition presents the FCC with a stark choice: Bootstrap the regulations of a dying 20th century technology platform onto the networks of the future, to ever-diminishing consumer benefits, or take the lead in coordinating the transition to “Internet Everywhere”...

Telecommunications

February 23, 2013

Criticizing the FTC’s Proposed Order in the Google Patent Antitrust Case

Geoffrey A. Manne

I filed comments today on the FTC’s proposed Settlement Order in the Google standards-essential patents (SEPs) antitrust case. The Order imposes limits on the allowable process for enforcing FRAND licensing…

Intellectual Property

February 1, 2013

Copyright, Property Rights, and the Free Market

Adam Mossoff

Over at Cato Unbound, there has been a discussion this past month on copyright and copyright reform.  In his recent contribution to this discussion, Mark Schultz posted an excellent essay…

Intellectual Property

January 4, 2013

The price of closing the Google search antitrust case: questionable precedent on patents

Geoffrey A. Manne

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday closed its investigation of Google’s search business (see my comment here) without taking action. The FTC did, however, enter into a settlement with Google over the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 20, 2012

Podcast of Debate Between Judges Posner and Michel on the Patent System

Adam Mossoff

Today, people read almost daily reports about the “broken patent system” in newspaper articles, blogs and at social media websites. Is this true?

Intellectual Property

December 18, 2012

Policy Debates On Patents Should Focus On Facts, Not Rhetoric (Forbes.com Op-Ed)

Adam Mossoff

A heavily revised and expanded verison of one of my earlier blog postings was just posted as an op-ed on Forbes.com.  This op-ed addresses how the FTC and DOJ have…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 14, 2012

The FCC’s Reign of Terror on Transaction Reviews

Geoffrey A. Manne

Now that the election is over, the Federal Communications Commission is returning to the important but painfully slow business of updating its spectrum management policies for the 21st century.

Telecommunications

December 12, 2012

The “Common Law Property” Myth in the Libertarian Critique of IP Rights (Part 2)

Adam Mossoff

In Part One, I addressed the argument by some libertarians that so-called “traditional property rights in land” are based in inductive, ground-up “common law court decisions,” but that intellectual property…

Intellectual Property