TechBytes

Voters understand the age in which we live and are keenly aware of the value of IP to their household economy. Perhaps IP is well on its way to being a voting issue.

The greatest threat to green energy innovation is not new energy resources, but rather disregard (such as India’s) of the rights of innovators through the international IP system.

What needs to be done to finally slay the “troll” is to identify those who are truly bad actors and not impugn legitimate business models, allowing everyone to focus more clearly on the underlying problem.

Congress must rein in the NSA’s mass surveillance program not only to protect the privacy and freedom of American citizens, but to maintain America’s moral and economic leadership in the global digital economy.

The NSA has done virtually everything that Congress thought it stopped. In the course of doing so, the NSA has weakened security for all of us.

So long as India blatantly disregards  the intellectual property of its trading partners as part of its economic strategy, India will continue to throw away the world’s biggest economic opportunity.

Safety and security are important, but our constitutionally protected liberties and freedoms are even more important. The government should be able to protect both, but all indications are that it isn't.

Insisting that Fire Island’s storm-damaged copper network be replaced with the same old outdated technology is a step backward rather than forward.

So what happens when a whole country surrenders to the difficulty of commercializing patents and instead retreats to patent assertion as a means to shake down innovators? Look no further than France.