The Draft Policy Statement is the wrong approach because it further weakens IP rights since the unavailability of injunctive relief tends to further shift away from the protection of patents from a property regime toward a liability regime. It also comes at the wrong time.
Publications
January 25, 2022
January 24, 2022
Semiconductors represent the foundational industry for the entire global economy. The United States needs to ensure that it fields leading companies across the memory, logic, and analog subsectors, and that it maintains sufficient domestic semiconductor manufacturing to support its economic and national security needs.
January 24, 2022
Data privacy legislation has been on the Congressional to-do list for years, but as more states consider their own comprehensive privacy laws and Europe’s privacy regulation approaches its fifth anniversary, the federal government continues to lag behind.
January 24, 2022
This bill aims to “reduce gatekeeper power in the app economy, increase choice, improve quality, and reduce costs for consumers.” But it will do the opposite: damage the app economy by decreasing choice and quality while increasing costs for consumers.
January 24, 2022
In the absence of a federal privacy law, a growing patchwork of state laws burdens companies with multiple, duplicative compliance costs. The out-of-state costs from 50 such laws could exceed $1 trillion over 10 years, with at least $200 billion hitting small businesses.
January 24, 2022
ITIF is pleased to submit the following comments to the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Managements request for information regarding the opportunity for carbon capture and direct air capture technologies.
January 24, 2022
Concerns about China’s rapid rise in recent decades have affected U.S. policies on technology, innovation, and industrial competitiveness. Rob and Jackie discussed the history of Chinese industrial policy and its implications for America and its allies with Barry Naughton, the So Kwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at UC San Diego and author of The Rise of China’s Industrial Policy, 1978 to 2020.
January 24, 2022
By utilizing new data on medical research output and administrative death records, a recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) produces estimates on the causal link between biomedical research and health outcomes.
January 23, 2022
Proponents say requiring Apple to allow users to install apps from other app stores would foster competition and consumer choice. In reality, it would do the exact opposite: Forcing Apple to abandon its closed mobile ecosystem would eliminate an important alternative to open mobile ecosystems.
January 21, 2022
Manufacturing will bear the brunt of it, along with overall U.S. competitiveness.