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IP Protection Matters
by Center For Individual Freedom
IP Protection Matters is a podcast interview series examining notable issues related to the protection of and threats to intellectual property. IP Protection Matters is a project of the Center for Individual Freedom.
Episodes
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IP Protections for Scientific Discoveries and Innovations Critical for America’s Economic Success
Coke Morgan Stewart, President and CEO of the Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP), and a Former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), discusses the Constitutional foundations of intellectual property...
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American Innovator Award Winner Discusses the Bayh-Dole Act and the Importance of Strong IP Protections
Dr. Colleen Scott, a 2026 winner of the Bayh-Dole Coalition’s American Innovator Award, chemist and Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, who discovered a new class of shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging dyes that have potential to allow surgeons to visualize tumors with greater…
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USTR’s 2026 Special 301 Report
Patrick Kilbride, Policy Fellow at the Center for American Principles, discusses the United States Trade Representative’s 2026 Special 301 Report on the adequacy and effectiveness of the intellectual property protection practices of U.S. trading partners, changes and surprised compared to reports...
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IP Rights and Technology Transfer
Stephen Susalka, Chief Executive Officer of AUTM, discusses how university technology transfer powers the innovation economy – creating jobs, saving and enhancing lives, and improving productivity – the Bayh-Dole Act, which has enabled tremendous progress in innovation, and the importance of…
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Weak IP Terminology and the Need to Restore Patent Infringement Injunctions
Kristen Jakobsen Osenga, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law, discusses patent eligibility and preliminary injunctions in patent litigation, how strong intellectual property protections drive innovation, and some of the terminology (i.e., “evergreening”...
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IP Protections Essential to the Free Market and Startup Economy
Mark Schultz, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Chair in Intellectual Property and Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program at the University of Akron School of Law, discusses how strong intellectual property (IP) protections are essential to the free market and modern...
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Strong IP Protections Are Critical to Ensuring Continued U.S. Innovation Leadership
David Kappos, Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and former Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, discusses how strong intellectual property (IP) protections are essential for the U.S. to continue to lead the...
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Foreign Price Controls Undermine IP Rights and Impede Innovation
Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Healthcare Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses how “Most Favored Nation” pricing schemes, which seek to import foreign price controls on prescription drugs, would harm innovation, undermine intellectual property rights and...
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Exploring the Economic and Moral Benefits of IP Protection
Joshua Kresh, Executive Director of the IP Policy Institute (IPPI) at the University of Akron School of Law, discusses IPPI’s work, how strong intellectual property (IP) protections drive innovation and the economic success of the nation, misleading terms like “patent thickets” and…
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“Most Favored Nation” Drug Pricing’s Impact on IP and Innovation
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, explains how “Most Favored Nation” drug pricing is effectively the importing of counterproductive foreign nation price controls, how the policy would raise the cost of new inventions, and how increased fees and/or taxes on patents run…
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Value-Based Patent Fines Would Cripple American Innovation
John Manchester, Director of IP Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, discusses how a proposal to impose hefty fines in the form of “fees” on patent owners based on a government-assigned “valuation” of their patents would cripple America’s innovation ecosystem and harm the U.S. economy, jobs…
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Strong IP Protections Are Vital for U.S. Economic and National Security
Congressman Nathaniel Moran (TX-01) discusses current legislative efforts to maintain and strengthen intellectual property protections in America and why strong IP rights are critical to U.S. national security.
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Time to Clean Up the Supreme Court’s Patent Eligibility Mess and Restore Balance at the PTAB
The Honorable Kathleen O'Malley, former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, explains how strong intellectual property protections are critical to the U.S. economy, health and welfare, and national security, and...
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Combating Global Counterfeit Medicines
Shabbir Safdar, Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines, discusses the dangers of counterfeit medicines, the importance of supply chain security for American patients, how the reimbursement practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and insurance companies impact whether or…
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To Invent Is Divine: Creativity and Ownership
James Edwards, Jr., Founder and CEO of ELITE Strategic Services, LLC, and Founder and Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights, discusses his new book, “To Invent Is Divine: Creativity and Ownership,” which examines and explains how divine inspiration is behind creativity and...
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Restoring Balance to America’s Patent System
Michael Rosen, Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, discusses the balancing act of patent protection, how legal decisions and policy actions have titled that balance against patent holders in recent years, and efforts (e.g., passage of PERA and the PREVAIL Act) Congress can...
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Reinvigorating the U.S. Innovation Economy Requires Strong Enforcement of IP Rights
Professor Jonathan Barnett, Contributor with the Forum for Intellectual Property at the Hudson Institute and Director of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program at the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, discusses how the U.S. policy climate has been...
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Strong IP Protections Critical to Maintaining Robust Innovation Cycle
Henry Hadad, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Bristol-Myers Squibb, discusses how intellectual property (IP) protection is very much a natural right that encourages - not discourages - innovation, the incremental erosion of IP protections over the last 20 years, how the AI...
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USTR’s Special 301 Report: Monitoring the IP Protection Practices of U.S. Trading Partners
Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council), discusses World IP Day 2025, and the substance and timeliness of the U.S. Trade Representative’s latest Special 301 Report – a Congressionally mandated annual report that monitors and reviews the...
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The Historical and Constitutional Foundations of Patent Protection
Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, discusses the historical and Constitutional foundations of intellectual property rights and the vital role IP rights play in our innovation economy.
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IP and the American Dream: Success Stories
Jaci McDole, Senior Director, Copyright and Creativity at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center, explains how intellectual property protections are critical to the success of small businesses and the American dream, and discusses some inspiring, real-world case studies...
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IP, Innovation and the Cancer Moonshot
Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in Business & Economics at Pacific Research Institute (PRI) and Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation, discusses how price controls and other efforts to undermine and weaken intellectual property rights harm innovation and work…
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Choking Innovation: Why Policymakers Must Reject Compulsory Licensing, Price Fixing and Patent Confiscation Schemes
David Williams, President of Taxpayers Protection Alliance, discusses how compulsory licensing of intellectual property, price controls and patent confiscation policies like expanding government march-in powers under Bayh-Dole will reduce innovation and the availability of new life-saving drugs.
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Patent Evergreening: The Data Just Doesn’t Add Up
Dr. Kristina Acri, Senior Scholar at C-IP2 and John L. Knight Chair of Economics and Professor of Economics at Colorado College, explains how the data just doesn’t add up to support allegations of patent “evergreening” and accompanying policy proposals by advocates pushing to weaken patent...
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PTAB: The “Patent Death Squad”
Chris Israel, Executive Director of Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs, discusses how the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) has failed to accomplish its intended purpose, multiplying proceedings and costs for inventors and startups rather than curb unnecessary litigation, and...
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IP and Small Businesses
Karen Kerrigan, President & CEO of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, explains how strong intellectual property protections are critical for startups and small businesses, and how bad policy proposals like the push for expanded government “march-in” powers under the Bayh-Dole Act…
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Patently Uncertain: Patents and the Courts
Paul R. Michel, Former Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, discusses how a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions and other efforts have been deleterious to a strong patent system, how the U.S. is ceding our global leadership to China and other nations that are…
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The U.S. Must Lead the World as a Champion for Strong IP Rights
Stephen Ezell, Vice President of Global Innovation Policy and Director of the Center for Life Sciences Innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, discusses why the United States must reassert itself as a global champion for robust intellectual property (IP) rights through...
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Strong Intellectual Property Protections Produce Concrete Socio-Economic Benefits
Kelly Anderson, Executive Director of International Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center, discusses the 2024 International IP Index, the socio-economic benefits of strong intellectual property frameworks, and the need for the United States and European Union to...
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Bayh-Dole: ‘Most Inspired Piece of Legislation’ Over Last Half Century Threatened by Calls for Expanded Gov’t March-In Powers
Joseph Allen, Executive Director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, discusses the history behind the Bayh-Dole Act, how it has revolutionized the U.S. economy, and how calls for expanded government “march-in” rights and other efforts threaten to undermine Bayh-Dole and the enormous progress it has…
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The 2024 Patent Landscape and a Roadmap for Future Innovation and Prosperity
Alden Abbott, Senior Research Fellow at Mercatus Center and former General Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission, discusses the 2024 patent landscape, legal decisions and foreign developments that pose a danger to America's patent-driven world leadership, and four specific federal actions that...
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Strong IP Protections Enable the Private Investment Fuel That Drives Innovation
John Stanford, Executive Director of Incubate, discusses how bad policies – like drug price controls in the Inflation Reduction Act and other policy efforts to undercut strong IP protections – discourage private investment and significantly impact the incentive for scientists and inventors to...
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Just the Facts: How Bad Data is Infecting the Public Policy Debate Over Patent Protections
Brad Watts, Vice President for Patents and Innovation Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center, discusses how bad data and pejorative terms like “evergreening” and “patent thickets” are misleading the public policy debate over strong patent protections.
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Patent Thickets, Evergreening and Product Hopping: Falsehoods vs. Fact
Andrei Iancu, Former Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of USPTO (2018-2021) and current Co-Chair of the Council for Innovation Promotion, discusses the terminology used by advocates of weaker patent protections and how the USPTO’s proposal on “terminal disclaimers”...
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The Conservative Case for Strong IP Protections
James Edwards, Founder and Executive Director of Conservatives for Property Rights, discusses the conservative case for strong intellectual property (IP) protections and how USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board threatens patent rights.
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IP Protections Enable Innovation
Patrick Kilbride, Policy Fellow with the Center for American Principles, discusses how intellectual property (IP) protections drive innovation and how IP and innovation ecosystems are under attack by interests that don’t want to be encumbered by the rights of others.
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