Posts Tagged: Presidential Campaign
Trump on IP and Patent Reform: What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Understand
Of course, the implication being if you are not in favor of a never ending revision of U.S. patent laws then you are somehow an ignorant …
Trump targeted in copyright infringement action over Skittles tweet filed by former refugee photographer
Trump, no stranger to lawsuits himself, can now count U.S. district courts as the latest venue where his position could be on the decline. A suit …
Clinton tech agenda supports STEM education, infrastructure upgrades for Internet access
Clinton’s tech agenda revolves around five main points that she hopes will lead to American dominance in research and development as well as overall innovation. First, …
Hillary Clinton supports patent reform, announces technology and innovation initiative
Clinton's proposal for accomplishing this goal would be twofold: (1) to reduce excessive patent litigation through additional patent reform; and (2) strengthening the operational capacity of the USPTO by …
Paul Ryan, Fee Diversion and Presidential Politics
This extra attention on Wisconsin, coupled with Paul Ryan being the dream candidate for those who favor an open Republican Convention, provides us with a somewhat manufactured, …
What the 2016 presidential candidates are saying about H-1B visas
On the Republican side, front-runner Donald Trump, whose inability to be stopped by his own rhetoric has proven to be a hallmark of his campaign, has said …
Fact Checking Bogus ‘Patent Report Card’ Grade for Senator Cruz
Simply stated, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) did not deserve the F foisted on him by the Engine study or amplified by the reporting by Wired and Ars …
California Dreaming: Mitt Romney and the Inter Partes Rebuke of Trump
Just when you thought the race for the White House couldn’t get any more unpredictable and bizarre, the 2012 Republican Nominee rebuked the current Republican frontrunner, Donald …
Patently Trump: Can He Do a Better Job Enforcing American Innovations?
Now it is time for Trump to call for a vigorous debate on the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty (“TPP”) to demonstrate his expertise on matters of strategic …
Ted Cruz has much in common with Abraham Lincoln, thanks to patents
For Cruz his depth of sincere appreciation and awareness of the role patents and private property rights comes from his meager roots, from his work as an …
Kasich, Patents and the Middle Class
What Kasich doesn’t explain, however, is how he achieved a balanced budget. As part of the Kasich-Clinton deal the budget of the United States Patent and …
Free Drugs: Bernie Sanders and the end of drug patent exclusivity
The Medical Innovation Prize Act of 2007, submitted by Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT), would have effectively done away with patent rights for pharmaceutical drugs approved by the Food …
Beware the Ides of March: How Surrogates Will Set Patent Policy
In 2008 the surrogates did at least increase the emphasis on having some form of post grant challenge procedure in the bill that would pass Congress and be …
Why Trump’s love of eminent domain should concern patent owners
Donald Trump argued at the New Hampshire debate that our nation’s infrastructure would not happen without eminent domain. While economic development as a justification for eminent …
Smarter manufacturing policies, not tariffs or negotiators, is what America needs
The U.S. cannot win a trade war based on raising tariffs. Rather than engage in a trade war that the U.S. can’t win, why …
