Oscar Sunday. According to Betfair.com, Jennifer Lawrence probably won't win best actress at the Oscars Sunday. I'm rooting for her, though — not because of her acting, but because the movie she stars in, "Joy," celebrates the difficulty of entrepreneurship. Lawrence's character is based on real-life entrepreneur Joy Mangano, who invented the ... MORE
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John Stossel: Joy and Bad Law
Oscar Sunday. According to Betfair.com, Jennifer Lawrence probably won't win best actress at the Oscars Sunday. I'm rooting for her, though — not because of her acting, but because the movie she stars in, "Joy," celebrates the difficulty of entrepreneurship. Lawrence's character is based on real-life entrepreneur Joy Mangano, who invented the ... MORECopyrights & Patents Have Become A Religion
by Tim Cushing. If you've read Techdirt for any length of time, you'll have noticed that intellectual property laws have been decoupled from logic
for several years now. Because the entities heavily-reliant on IP
protections (and who mostly serve as gatekeepers and middlemen, rather
than perform any creative work of their own) have trouble ... MOREFay Voshell: We're All Redskins Now
Time to go on the warpath. Conservatives should be disabused of any notion that the recent revocation of the Redskins’ trademark by the US Patent Office had anything at all to do with the disparagement of Native Americans, real or perceived. On the contrary, the exercise in political correctness is not about aggrieved Native Americans. ... MORE
Bret Swanson: The Patent Drain On Economic Growth
Patent trolls stifle innovation. Slow economic growth since the Great Recession has been devastating for employment, middle class incomes, and federal and state budgets. Worse, many economists are predicting slow growth for the next generation. A number of policies — from tax and immigration reform to more innovation friendly ... MORE
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