Showing posts with label patents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patents. Show all posts
Friday, May 23, 2025

TGIF: Maestro Trump and Drug Prices

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When encountering a public problem, people tend to fall into one of two camps: one camp, the larger one, says, "There oughta be a law....
Friday, December 19, 2014

TGIF: Monopoly and Aggression

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The concepts monopoly and aggression are intimately related, like lock and key , or mother and son . You cannot fully understand the fi...
Monday, September 15, 2014

TGIF: Ownership and Ideas

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Like many libertarians, I’ve learned a lot from Murray Rothbard on a wide variety of subjects. Of course, no one gets everything right, esp...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

IP's Purpose Is to Encourage Innovation? Ha!

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See this .
Friday, October 25, 2013

Kinsella, Tucker, and Me on IP and Obamacare

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Here's the video of my Liberty Talk with Stephan Kinsella and Jeff Tucker. I thoroughly enjoyed this.  
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Patents Stifle Prosperity

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My latest article at The Project to Restore America is "Patents Stifle Prosperity."
Thursday, February 02, 2012

Contra-IP

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My article "Patent Nonsense" was published in The American Conservative  and posted online .
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Friday, June 03, 2011

TGIF: Slave Labor and Intellectual Property

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In a recent discussion about copyright, my interlocutor suggested that the unauthorized publishing of a book in effect makes a slave of the ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Question for Randian IP Advocates

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The Randian case for intellectual "property rights" is that all value-productive action (which is necessary for life) proceeds fr...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Ben Franklin on Patents

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Governor Thomas was so pleased with the construction of this stove . . . that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them fo...
Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Patents: End Them. Don't Mend Them

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Freeman authors David Levine and Michele Boldrin call for an end to patents in this Christian Science Monitor article . A taste: [I]ntell...
Monday, June 15, 2009

IP Debate Breaks Out at FEE

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At a recent FEE seminar, a debate over intellectual "property" broke out spontaneously among Ivan Pongracic (second from right), P...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

TGIF: Intellectual "Property" vs. Real Property

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Intellectual “property” (IP) is a sleeper issue. It seems uncontroversial: Someone invents or writes something and therefore owns it. What c...
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Saturday, June 06, 2009

Carson on Intellectual "Property"

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I highly recommend Kevin Carson 's "'Intellectual Property': A Libertarian Critique" (pdf), published by the Center f...
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