Tribal Sovereignty Advancements Through Intellectual Property Law

It's an interesting outlook. I think the Allergan patent immunity boomlet was pure bullshit, for reasons that seem evident to me, so I don't think there's any future business for Native lawyers in it. The occasional trademark case is hardly going to produce any significant business for Native lawyers, so I wonder about the economic analysis of this "IP is going to be good for us" proposition, where it is so obvious, on the other hand, that contemporary copyright and patent law distributes wealth upward. If both copyright and patent law ceased to exist, so that educational materials and drugs were far less expensive, surely Native America would be much better off, from an aggregate welfare point of view, than it will be with a few supplements to lawyers' incomes.

Instead, this seems to me an agile and engaging argument of a false case: a sort of greenwashing by the intellectual property industries, advertising why people who have little if any reason to be on their side should suddenly regard them as allies. In that genre, it is very well done. I'm not the best-placed commentator to decide how to make it better, but it meets the fairly stringent standard of review that I think it's very good even though I don't believe a single word.