When President-elect Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Abigail “Gail” Slater to lead the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division last week, he expressed a return to his first administration’s policy of supporting innovation and rejecting support for predatory patent infringement by Big Tech companies.
In his statement in support of Slater’s nomination, Trump recognized that, “Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector,” and that it has trampled on “the rights of … Little Tech!”
As I have written about many times, Big Tech companies now regularly engage in predatory infringement of patents owned by individual inventors, startups, and universities—exemplars of Little Tech. Little Tech are key drivers of economic growth, new jobs, and flourishing living standards.
Perhaps no company is a better…
