Policy

This site contains comprehensive support for debating Policy during the 2024-25 school year. On the left, you will find full files with hundreds of pages of evidence and blocks to support your debating. You can simply click through the folders to access the key arguments on need. On the right, you will find links to our key arguments as well as some basic explanatory information.

Regular Updates and Core Files: Kritiks |  Kritik Answers | Impacts | Impact DefenseCapitalism Dedevelopment | Race  | Politics | Climate Change |   Hegemony   

Intellectual Property Evidence

Policy Power Points

Policy Debate Textbook

              Impacts & Impact Defense

DeDevelopment

IP Topic

“NDCA Novice” means the arguments are included in the NDCA novice packet.

 

Intro Issues

Topic Intro Essay
IP Vocabulary Words
  Intro Lecture Pt 1
  Intro Lecture Pt 2
  Intro Lecture Pt 3
Understanding the Courts and Litigation lecture

Advantages

Common advantages were discussed in more detail in the Intro essay. These are links to evidence that support and answer these common advantages.

AI Good/Bad
Climate Change 
Competiveness
Hegemony
Innovation
Pharma/Biotech Innovation

Cases –Policy

*AIs as Inventors
*Copyright Protection for Artists/Creators
Works

    Demo Debate
*Standards Development Organization Copyright Aff
*Chakarbarty
*Trademark Trolls

*Ebay Affirmative

*Alice-Mayo Affs
*No Fault Injunctive Relief
*Inter-Parties Review Aff 
*Bona-fide Diminis Aff

*Marijuana Trademark Aff

*Biopiracy Bad Aff
*IP theft protection Aff
*Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Aff
*Diagnostic patents aff 
*Fast-track patents for green tech
  Fast-Track Neg
  Renewables Bad
*Natives Aff 
*PTAB Aff
*Stop Waivers Aff
*Border Seizures Aff
*Web3 and DAOs

Cases — Policy (NDCA Novice Packet)

*Copyright Protection for Artists/Creators
Works

*Shop Safe 
*Patent Eligibility Restoration Aff

Topicality

“Strengthen” and “in the US” (NDCA packet)

Cases — Kritik

Biopolitics K Aff

Bad Education” K Aff

*IP Commons Aff 

Indian Catachresis K

*Feminomenon K Aff

*Fugitivity
*Sonic Mumble Rap

*Marx Aff

Disadvantages

AI Industry Good DA (NDCA Novice)

Antitrust Disadvantage

Anti-Trust Horse Trading

Court Clog (NDCA Novice)
PTO Trade-Off

Business Confidence   
 Small Business Disadvantage
Economy/Innovation

Inflation (NDCA Novice)

   Globalization Good
   AI Bad
   AI Good   

Innovations Bad

Oil Prices

China IP Model Better

China-US Relations

Elections
Senate Control

Canada Competitiveness

Counterplans

Sui Generis

Anti-Trust Counterplan

Chevron  
Judicial Review

International Treaties (Process/Agent CP)
Consult World Intellectual Property Rights Organization


 Kritiks

 

Capitalism

*Capitalism (NDCA Novice)
   More Links

Confucionism/Ruism

Racial Scripts 

Universality Kritik of Identity Politics

Policy Debate's Generic Arguments

“Con Con” Counterplan — File and how to answer
Answering Politics — Essay on how to answer

Kritiks & Answers

 

Race

 

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