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With the extraordinary turbulence of the global markets, the Obama Administration’s emphasis on stimulating the U.S. economy and creating U.S. jobs, and the increasing recognition from congressional appropriators that a strong patent system is critical to an innovation-friendly government, it is more important than ever that Congress pass a permanent legislative solution to the damaging practice of taxing innovation by diverting user fees away from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

It appears that Democrats in Congress have decided to use the budget reconciliation process—which allows the Senate to approve legislation with 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to quash a filibuster—in their effort to pass sweeping health care reform legislation.

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

We have been warning that the budget deficit being pushed through by this administration and Democratic-led Congress is unfathomable.

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.

“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with another … a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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

One of the more contentious issues to emerge so far in the health care reform debate is what President Obama has referred to as the “public plan.

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.

President Barack Obama and the U.