houston texas is stephen can sell a senior fellow at the little von misses institute with over seventeen years patent law experience he taught ip law as an adjunct law professor at south texas college of law and is the author of several books most relatively against intellectual property rights or when the earth was thought to be flat saying it was round seemed silly but now we laugh at people who say that the world is flat i don't know any good if i did i would laugh at them and similarly it has become common knowledge that intellectual property is necessary somehow the government violence is an essential part of creating new ideas but seven disagrees and has spent years in the trenches defeating the silly arguments behind ip they so much for joining us tonight and i can't believe i screw up your name three times already in the course of the sub sewed but something can sell it from houston texas thank you so much for joining us tonight i'm glad to be here adam i'll stand now you've got a lot of experience you've been in the trenches you've been dealing with these arguments so i would let's let's just go through one hit these here what do you say to people who say that intellectual pr