From 2003 to 2007, Mr. DeLong was a Senior Fellow with the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a market oriented think tank in Washington, DC, where he directed its activities concerning intellectual property rights, particularly its website and blog, IPCentral.Info and its Center for the Study of Digital Property.

Before joining PFF, DeLong was a Senior Analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Vice President, and before that the Vice President and General Counsel of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. Earlier jobs included a long stint as an independent lawyer and consultant, working primarily on environmental and energy matters; and tours as Research Director of the Administrative Conference of the United States; as Assistant Director for Special Projects in the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission; and as a Senior Analyst in the Office of Program Evaluation at the United States Bureau of the Budget. He started his career as a litigation lawyer with the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers.

Mr. DeLong is a magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was Book Review Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a cum laude graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in U.S. History.

He is the author of many scholarly and popular books, articles, commentaries, legal briefs, speeches, and blogs, and has often testified before congressional committees. He belongs to the bars of the District of Columbia, California (inactive), the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Areas of Focus:

Intellectual Property
      Protecting creativity in the P2P age
      Patent system and its improvement
      Proprietary and open source software
Innovation & Industrial Structure
      Standard setting
      Financial regulation
      Telecommunications
Competition policy
International (Asia)
Energy
Administrative Law

Publications (Recent)

James DeLong, "Finance, business models and regulation," The Washington Times, August 1, 2008

James V. DeLong, "Avoiding a Tech Train Wreck," THE AMERICAN, May/June 2008

James V. DeLong, "Our new digital economy (Review of Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch)," Washington Times, Jan. 13, 2008
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080113

James V. DeLong, "Google the Destroyer," TCS Daily, Jan. 07, 2008
http://tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=123107B

James V. DeLong, " The World Is Round: How To Think About Foreign Investment in the US," TCSDaily, Nov. 21, 2007
http://tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=112107A

James V. DeLong, " A Chill Wind For Innovation: European Court’s Ruling Imperils High-Tech Economy," Washington Legal Foundation, Oct. 19, 2007
http://www.wlf.org/upload/10-19-07delong-NEW.pdf

James V. DeLong, "The Equities of Private Equity," TCSDaily, Aug. 8, 2007
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=080707C

James V. DeLong, “Intellectual Property: A Tool for Cooperation,” Futures, Vol. 2, Iss. 1 2007)

James V. DeLong, "Patent Reform & Industrial Structure," Progress on Point 13.31 (PFF Nov. 2006).