TechBytes

As state legislative sessions begin to close, states continue to modernize their regulation of the communications industry.

Why are domestic policies, both here and abroad, threatening to tear apart the most globally competitive companies? Rather, we should be doing all we can to encourage their success, especially now.

Patent reform has been stalled on Capitol Hill for years.

On your local oldies radio station, when you hear Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons’ hit song “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night),” neither Frankie Valli nor The Four Seasons receive any income from the broadcast of their performance.

In 1990, Congress substantially increased the fees associated with obtaining and maintaining patents and trademarks.

Intellectual property, the driver and economic cornerstone of the U.

We’re firm believers that the 25-year economic expansion that started in 1982 and lasted through 2007 was due in large part to adoption of policies that rewarded investment capital, by encouraging its formation, incentivizing its deployment, and resisting the devaluation of inflation.

As was evidenced last week at CTIA Wireless 2009, the world is on the move—not just communications, but also with computing power.

This week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked for input about PEG channels (public, educational and governmental access channels) in the states as PEG activists demanded that: Preferential spectrum be preserved for these channels and preferential menu placement of PEG channels be given; and, Video service providers be restricted from moving PEG channels from old analog technology to new digital delivery.

“Merger mania is gripping the global pharmaceutical industry” scream the headlines.