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Zach Carter

Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...

Don't Break the Internet

Mark Lemley | Posted 02.20.2012

Mark Lemley

Copyright and trademark infringement on the Internet is a very real problem, and IP owners need tools to deal with that problem. But the power to break the Internet shouldn't be among them.

Sure SOPA Will Add Jobs... for Trial Lawyers, Government Bureaucrats, Pornographers

Edward J. Black | Posted 01.16.2012

Edward J. Black

Move over Obama. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has come up with their own jobs plan by way of oppressive Internet regulations that would create thousands of new, high paying jobs for attorneys as well as government workers and Internet censors.

Joshua Hersh

Palestinian UNESCO Bid Sets Up Clash Between Hollywood And Israel Lobbies

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 01.02.2012

WASHINGTON -- Pro-Israel interests on Capitol Hill may be about to run afoul of the nearly equally powerful lobbyists of Hollywood and Silicon Valley,...

Zach Carter

Patent Reform Refuses To Die, Congress Keeps Cashing In

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.06.2011

UPDATE: The patent reform bill cleared a filibuster on Tuesday by a vote of 93 to 5. WASHINGTON -- The seemingly endless congressional circus known...

Zach Carter

THE SPOILSMEN COMETH: How Congress Corrupted Patent Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 10.04.2011

WASHINGTON -- After months of dead-end negotiations over raising the federal debt ceiling, President Barack Obama walked into the East Room of the Whi...

Homeland Security Seizing Internet Domains In Piracy Crackdown

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies, the Web addresses of a number of site...

Cashing in on IP

Robert F. Brands | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert F. Brands

Smart organizations are realizing that IP exploitation is an enabler. It empowers companies to transform often idle holdings into a significant source of income generation.

Redefining Innovation's True Reward: Amassing Intellectual Property and Value Creation

Robert F. Brands | Posted 05.25.2011

Robert F. Brands

What is the ultimate goal of process-driven innovation? Open a bottle of Coca-Cola, and read its performance reports to get a true taste of the answer.

The Academy and Fashion -- An Unlikely Pair Teaches Us About Innovation

Krisztina Holly | Posted 05.25.2011

Krisztina Holly

In the rush to protect our ideas we often overlook the fact that the value of some ideas are most fully realized when they are shared, not kept secret.

Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet

Jim Fruchterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Fruchterman

My proposal is that the world's knowledge should work for all of humanity. The challenge is to maintain the balance between commercial exploitation of creativity and society's interests.

Illegal DVDs in China: Here to Stay

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Doctoroff

The government will do nothing to stem the flood of pirated videos washing over towns and cities across the nation.

For the Justice Department-RIAA Connection, the Fifth Time is Not The Charm

Gigi Sohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Gigi Sohn

While there are a number of lawyers and others in the White House and elsewhere with a more balanced view of copyright, having so many recording industry lawyers concentrated in the Justice Department is particularly troubling.

Innovation Is Essential to Economic Growth

Tom Donohue | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Donohue

America's ability to compete in a global economy and create 21st century jobs for our children depends on the ability to lead in innovation. And the key to innovation is intellectual property.