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In this post, we will talk about Bioleft: an innovative affirmative which uses IP to protect seeds as a commons against corporate control. By repurposing legal tools, Bioleft challenges IP’s traditional enclosures, balancing reformist and revolutionary strategies for system transformation.

The abolish patents strategy is over-performing because patents good/bad debates are missing the forest for the trees. Let's cut through the noise.

There are many strategies to counter "innovation bad" arguments in IP debates. Let's take a deep dive into one that is neglected, but potentially quite powerful: the "Time of Perils" hypothesis.

In this post, we will walk through some big picture ideas relevant to politics, walk through the politics DA canon, and break down the workflow behind assembling an aff politics file before a tournament.

By leveraging the power of regulatory agencies rather than property rights, regulatory exclusivity recreates the economic benefits of IP using a meaningfully different mechanism.

In this post, we will talk about legal precedent advantages, look at how they help the aff diversify their impacts, and examine a powerful strategy—the Distinguish CP—which can help the neg respond.

In this post, we will talk about the litigation DA - a piece of offense that will form the core of many generic CP + DA strategies on the upcoming topic.

In this post, we will put the topicality argument about which we speculated in our earlier exploration of the topic into practice. This argument excludes cases which expand what is eligible for IP protection beyond currently covered subject matter.