Intellectual Property

All Kinsella IP Articles

IP Sites and Resources

| KinsellaLaw.com IP and Patent Practice Links and Resources |

| Kinsella IP Policy/Theory Articles |

• KinsellaLaw.com IP/Patent Links and Resources
• MISES.ORG IP Resources
• Free-Market.net IP links
• Free-Market.net IP Spotlight
• BustPatents Website (PATNEWS newsletter too)
• Federation for a Free Informational Infrastructure (FFII) (re European software patents)
• François-René Rideau Rideau Patent Links
• Eben Moglen’s site
• Tom G. Palmer’s site
• Anti-Patent References, by Chris Rasch
• On the myth about the Patent Office official who resigned because he thought there was nothing left to invent

IP Articles

Con IP

Selected Kinsella IP Articles/Blogs

• In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule, September 4, 2000, LewRockwell.com (Polish? translation)
• Against Intellectual Property, Spring 2001, Journal of Libertarian Studies; Spanish translation; Polish translation; Georgian translation published as chapter in Property and Liberty, Vol. III of the
  Library of Liberty series (New Economic School–Georgia, forthcoming 2005) (selection of free market oriented writers published with support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation (Germany));
  (Awarded the Mises Institute’s O.P. Alford III Prize for scholarly article published during 2001-2002 that best advances libertarian scholarship, at the eighth Austrian Scholars Conference, March 16, 2002, in Auburn, Alabama)
• There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent, Mises.org, Mar. 7, 2005 (related blog discussion)
• Patents and Utilitarian Thinking (on setting up a government funded reward system to encourage innovation), Mises.org blog
• The Morality of Acquiring and Enforcing Patents, Stephan Kinsella, LewRockwell.com BLOG
• Letter to an Anonymous Patent Attorney, Jan. 25, 2002, LewRockwell.com.
• Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: Yes, Insight magazine, May 21, 2001 (better-formatted version).
• Letter on Intellectual Property Rights, IOS Journal 5, no. 2 (June 1995), pp. 12-13 (including: David Kelley, “Response to Kinsella,” IOS Journal 5, no. 2 (June 1995), p. 13; and Murray I. Franck, “Intellectual and Personality Property,” IOS Journal 5, no. 3 September 1995), p. 7.
• Is Intellectual Property Legitimate?, Winter 2000, Federalist Society, based on version previously published in 1 Pennsylvania Bar Association Intellectual Property Newsletter 3 (Winter 1998); Es Legitima la Propiedad Intelectual? (Spanish translation)

Crticism/Discussion of Kinsella IP Articles

• Stephan Kinsella On Intellectual Property, Part III?, No-treason.com
• Stephan Kinsella On Intellectual Property, Part III?, discussion on Anti-state.com
• Mainstream Economists Agree With Kinsella, Mises blog

| All Kinsella IP Articles |

Other Con IP

• The Case For Patents Harming Innovation (Techdirt)
• Intellectual Property Page, and The Case Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
• Copy Fighting, by Tom W. Bell. Very interesting.
• Patent Absurdity: Ending a drug company scam, by Ronald Bailey, ReasonOnline, October 23, 2002
• The Case Against Intellectual Property, by Michele Boldrin (University of Minnesota) and David K. Levine (UCLA)
• Patent Politics, by Michael H. Davis (only registered patent attorney, other than myself (and one other), who opposes the patent system; but exactly unlike me, he opposes it on leftist/anti-property grounds).
• A New Direction for Intellectual Property, Amy Harmon, New York Times, May 13, 2002
• Suddenly, ‘Idea Wars’ Take on a New Global Urgency, Amy Harmon, New York Times, Nov. 11, 2001.
• Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?, Julio H. Cole, Journal of Libertarian Studies.
• Would the Absence of Copyright Laws Significantly Affect the Quality and Quantity of Literary Output?, Julio H. Cole, The Journal of Markets and Morality, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 2001.
• Intellectual Property: Copyright and Patent in Liberty (from the forthcoming book The Debates of Liberty; Please cite as unpublished manuscript), by Wendy McElroy.
• Musical Condoms: Make Mine Whistle “Dixie”, Wendy McElroy, American Partisan, 1 Apr 2000.
• Contra Copyright, Wendy McElroy, The Voluntaryist, June 1985.
• The Government Copyright System Is Dying, Gary North, LewRockwell.com, Nov. 5, 2003.
• Government and Microsoft: a Libertarian View on Monopolies, François-René Rideau (also, Rideau’s IP/patent links in Patents Are An Economic Absurdity)

• Patents, long the tech world’s currency, come under attack: The patent office has been criticized for allowing a ticket of patents to grow in recent years,
  Julie Landry, RedHerring, April 19, 2002
• IP and other articles by Professor Tom W. Bell (see also Professor Bell’s IP Map and IP teaching materials)
• IP and other articles by Professor James Boyle
• Demystifying intellectual property issues (including a minimal and a moderate alternative to the current IP regime), Holger Blasum
• Copyright Gone Mad, Heather Burke, Aug. 1999.
• Rethinking Patent Law, Gene Callahan, Mises.org, July 18, 2000.
• The Case Against the Patent System, Pierre Desrochers, Le Quebecois Libre, Sept. 2, 2000.
• Intellectual Improprieties: A leading gadfly [Greg Aharonian of PatNews] picks some of the worst patents of all time, Steve Ditlea, Scientific American, February 2002.
• Prescription Panic, Mike Godwin, Reason, Feb. 2002.
• Copywrong: Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest, Mike Godwin, Reason, July 2001 (Review of Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet, by Jessica Litman).
• Patents Revisited: The Quest For Answers, Andy Kashdan, A libertarian reads the paper…, October 27, 2001 (blog).
• Are “Intellectual Property Rights” Justified?, Markus Krummenacker, v. 1.1.  La Propriete des Inventions: Propriete Naturelle ou Monopole?, by Bertrand Lemennicier, 1995 [PDF, 1.14Mb; French].
• Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, by Eben Moglen, First Monday, August 1999.
• My Un-PC Views on “Intellectual Property,” Jeremy Sapienza, LewRockwell.com, May 15, 2001.
• The Fraud of “Intellectual Property”, Jeremy Sapienza, LewRockwell.com, May 8, 2001.
• The Right to Read, Richard Stallman
• Transfer Payments, Jacob Sullum, Synd. Col., Feb. 20, 2001.
• The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights, Roderick T. Long, Formulations 3, no. 1 (Autumn 1995).
• Copy Catfight: How Intellectual Property Laws Stifle Popular Culture, Jesse Walker, Reason, March 2000.
• How can they patent that?, Peter Wayner, Salon, March 1999(?)
• JoelGrus.com IP Links.

Pro IP/Neutral/General/Reference/Of Interest

• “Staking Claims” feature in some issues of Scientific American, which discusses absurd and other patents. See, e.g., the following issues: October 2001;
  November 2001; and August 2001.
• The Political Economy of Intellectual Property, by Michael Perelman, Monthly Review (Jan. 2003).
• Delphion Gallery of Obscure Patents (see also related Scientific American article).
• BountyQuest–challenge a patent, win valuable prizes
• The yin and yang of copyright and copyleft, by Arrow Augerot
• Intellectual Property Rights: Theory & Indian Practice, by Garima Gupta & Avih Rastogi, Working Paper Series, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi, India. (Also see their apparently related paper, Intellectual Property Rights: Who Needs Them?)
• Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders, by Declan McCullagh, Wired, Mar. 22, 2002
• I’m gonna sue your ass! How industry leaders are putting startups through legal hell — and dampening innovation, Luc Hatlestad, RedHerring May 1999.
• Ig Nobel Prizes (see Technology Prize, e.g., Patenting the Wheel(!)).
• Do patents and copyrights undermine private property?: No, James DeLong, Insight magazine May 21, 2001.
• IP resources page by James DeLong.
• Intellectual Property Rights Viewed as Contracts, Richard O. Hammer, formulations
• Ideas as Property, Roy Halliday, formulations
  
• The Great Giveaway: Good ideas are worth money. So why are hard headed operators giving them away for free?, by Graham Lawton, NewScientist.com–interesting discussion of “copyleft”
• An Economic Review of the Patent System (second copy), by Fritz Machlup, 1958 report for Committee on the Judiciary
• Perkins, Greg, Don’t Steal This Article!
• Informational Property: Logorights, J. Neil Schulman, Journal of Social and Biological Structures (JAI Press, 1990)
• Standards As Intellectual Property: An Economic Approach, David D. Friedman, University of Dayton Law Review 19, no. 3 (Spring 1994): 1109-1129

Wacky/Humor

• Examiner Obscenity: in a purportedly genuine Official Action sent by an Examiner at the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to a patent applicant (see Paragraph 8) (JPG file, 116Kb; courtesy PATNEWS)
• Voicemail message, with increasingly frustrated obscenities, purportedly left by trademark applicant/appellant with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) (WAV file, 1.3Mb)