Congress: Jared Polis’ political passions

By Shana Goldberg and Rabbi Hillel Goldberg you get a letter in the mail demanding payment of $50,000 dollars for infringing a patent, and you have no idea what it’s about or what to do, contact Congressman Jared Polis. The representative from Colorado’s second district, who made his fortune in the early days of the World Wide Web, brings to Congress unique expertise in intellectual property. He hasn’t wasted any time putting it to use helping his constituents. In the age of the Internet, open source and freedom of information, intellectual property violations are often associated with copyright infringement, such as illegal downloading or uploading. Traditionally, however, intellectual property has dealt largely with patents, and it still does. In a recent conversation in the Intermountain […]