R Street’s Technology and Innovation policy program conducts research and advocacy around the public policy frameworks that govern both established and emerging technologies. Our goal is to push back against laws and regulations that impede economic progress or individual liberty, and to advance policy solutions that allow technology to move at the speed of innovation.
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On Spectrum, NTIA Sides With Bureaucracy Against 5G And The FCC
Joe Kane
From Forbes:
The Department of Education has similarly failed to deliver on the 2.5 GHz for some 50 years. Sadly, some of the most valuable spectrum lies fallow at a critical moment in…
When it Comes to Content Moderation, We’ve Been Focusing on the Wrong Type of Bias
Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin
One of Melvin Kranzberg’s six laws of technology states that “technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” This is ever so apparent in the process of moderating content online….
Submission from
Kristen Nyman
Fellow, National Security and Cybersecurity
R Street Institute
Kathryn Waldron
Fellow, National Security and Cybersecurity
R Street Institute
Anthony…
INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE
The R Street Institute¹ is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public-policy research organization. R Street’s mission is to engage in policy research and educational outreach that…
Open Access: SCOTUS will consider whether publishers can copyright annotated state codes
Charles Duan
From ABA Journal:
The R Street Institute, a public policy organization in Washington, D.C., and others argue in their brief that official annotations have been part of the law going back to…
Gilead’s HIV Patent Spat With HHS Could Keep Drug Prices High
Charles Duan
From Bloomberg Law:
“The government says even if it was obvious to try out using the particular drug cocktail for pre-exposure prophylactic treatment, there’s nothing that says what the…
Unleashing Unlicensed Innovation
Jeffrey Westling
Unlicensed spectrum made innovative technologies that require large amounts of data processing — like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — possible. The next generation of technology — think the internet of…
Guest Post: Is Big Tech FRANDly to Competition?
Charles Duan
On Tuesday, Apple released a new policy on its website relating to the obscure topic of “FRAND” licensing of patents. That’s an especially obscure corner of the already-obscure area of patent…
In the Matter of
Implementation of State and Local WT Docket No. 19-250
Governments’ Obligation to Approve Certain …
Clinic Works w/R Street Institute on PTO Comment re: AI Inventions
Charles Duan
From Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic:
The Cyberlaw Clinic recently submitted a comment in response to a request from the United States Patent and Trademark Office about the patentability of…