Commentary

World IP Day: Celebrate American Preeminence

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, April 25 2019

This week marks World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, which merits celebration of IP’s outsized role in making the United States the most innovative, prosperous and powerful society in human history. For most Americans, the role of private property rights as a primary driver of what we know as American Exceptionalism goes almost without saying, at least beyond the fever swamps of freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D – New York) and the eighty or ninety candidates straining to claim the far left in the 2020 presidential race. For the rest of us, both morality…

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