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The Trophy-Sharing Cartel: How Europe's Digital Markets Act Turns Google's IP Into a Public Utility
In IPWatchdog, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that the EU's Digital Markets Act turns Google's intellectual property into a utility for its rivals.
Jeffrey Depp


A Patent, a Blood Test, and 20 Years of Waiting
In Truth on the Market, we argued that a brain-injury blood test's 20-year road to patients shows why Congress must fix patent eligibility law.
Jeffrey Depp


Webinar Video: When Should We Recognize Something as a Property Right?
Jeffrey Depp joins a Federalist Society panel with Alden Abbott, Jane Bambauer and Satya Marar on intellectual property, AI training and fair use.
Ashley Baker


The Supreme Court Picks the Wrong Patent Fight in Hikma v. Amarin
In IPWatchdog, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that by taking Hikma v. Amarin, the Supreme Court chose a narrow skinny-label fight over the patent questions that matter.
Jeffrey Depp


The Fatal Conceit of Cheap Drugs
In Truth on the Market, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that Hikma v. Amarin reflects a fatal conceit: the belief that courts and regulators can engineer cheaper drugs.
Jeffrey Depp


CFJ Weighs In on How to Restore America’s Scientific and Innovation Leadership
American technological leadership results from secure property rights driving risk taking not from centralized planning or regulatory micromanagement.
Jeffrey Depp


Re: Revision to the Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
These proposed reforms—particularly the restrictions on serial and parallel inter partes review (“IPR”) challenges and the requirement that petitioners stipulate to litigating validity in only one forum—represent an urgently needed course-correction to restore reliability to U.S. patent rights, strengthen American innovation, and fortify the nation’s technological leadership against foreign adversaries, especially the People’s Republic of China.
Jeffrey Depp


Europe Cannot Legislate Technological Supremacy
In RealClearMarkets, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that the EU's Digital Markets Act punishes scale and success and stifles the innovation Europe says it wants.
Jeffrey Depp


The NIH 'Access Plan' Mandate: Central Planning by Another Name
In Truth on the Market, CFJ's Jeffrey Depp argues that NIH's “access plan” mandate for patent licenses is central planning that threatens biomedical innovation.
Jeffrey Depp
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