TechBytes

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.

The societal benefits of the secondary ticket market depend on the right of ticket purchasers to transfer their tickets as they choose.

The copyright review process can be a helpful occasion to update copyright law, but it should not give credence to baseless criticisms manufactured for ideological purposes.

Understanding that many are truly ignorant of the bounds of copyright, content providers (and also copyright critics) can now move from punishment fixation and together seek increasingly better ways to educate the public, and focus on the increasingly important role that copyright plays in our economy.

Patent pools by design were intended to save innovators time and money by establishing cross-licensing agreements for specific technologies, but patent pools can be abused.

In a knowledge economy, you have to get knowledge policy right. Too much is at stake.

The Wireless Tax Fairness Act, newly reintroduced this week, would put a five-year moratorium on any new state and local discriminatory wireless taxes.

If our elected officials, who are supposed to be guardians of our freedom first of all, grant expanded police powers to the federal government in violation of their oath to preserve and protect the Fourth Amendment, the Feds will use them.

Regulators still have a role to play today, but it is not the role of the last 50 years.