IP-Czar and President Obama’s Excecutive Order on transparency/lobbyist ties
The always insightful Ben Sheffner wrote a response to my post on the IP-Czar and President Obama’s Executive Order on lobbying. If I were to reply to Mr. Sheffner, I’d make the exact same point Ben made when I first questioned whether President Obama’s campaign promises would affect his decision: On issues like these, we the voters are both judge and jury.
It’s pretty obvious that Obama’s Executive Order, as well as many of his and other candidates’ campaign promises are designed to be open-ended. They’re meant to sound expansive but tie the candidate down to very little, lest they be unable to deliver.
I don’t disagree with Ben’s comments that the Order is drafted in such a fashion that you can poke holes in the text. But to draw a line between a “general” issue and a “specific” issue would render the executive order just about completely meaningless. And since we the public get to be both judge and jury on these types of issues, I hereby decree, with the power invested in me by neighbor’s cat, that if President Obama tries to pick apart minutia and make that argument, I’m going to disagree. To state otherwise would be a little too reminiscent of Bill Clinton and the definition of “is.”
Microsoft Corp. v. Big Boy Distribution LLC:
About a month ago, I wrote about a case in the S.D. Fla, Microsoft Corp. v. Big Boy Distribution LLC, et al. Counsel for Big Boy had filed a motion to reconsider summary judgment on the grounds that the tribunal should have applied Jordanian law while evaluating the license at issue. On January 13, the Court dismissed the motion to reconsider sans accompanying memorandum.
And finally from the 1981 time machine:
Imagine if you will, sitting down for your morning coffee, and turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far fetched as it may seem.
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