America’s Big Tech companies – have more than a few things in common. For one thing – they are massive: Apple Market Cap: $1.1 trillion Amazon Market Cap: $960 billion Microsoft Market Cap: $832 billion Google Market Cap: $823 billion Facebook Market Cap: $470 billion Netflix Market Cap: $151…
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Trump’s Mexico Trade Deal: Great for Intellectual Property, Awful for IP Miscreants Canada and China
President Donald Trump yesterday delivered on yet another campaign promise. He announced the demise of the very awful North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In the alternative, we now have what he is calling “The United States-Mexico Trade Agreement.” Trump correctly prefers bilateral to multilateral deals. Because every additional partner beyond one – dilutes the…
As we have oft noted, the nation’s Tech Media is a perfect microcosm of the Traditional Media. They are largely unintelligent, profoundly unoriginal and mostly hardcore Leftist. When a Tech story hits – the Tech Media reacts in unison. When a Tech story breaks through to the Traditional Media – the Traditional reaction is identical…
The Left loathes those who lobby Congress. Well, those who lobby Congress for less government. The others – not so much. The Left loathes these Congressional lobbyists…almost certainly because they are expressly defended in the Constitution – and we know the Left isn’t at all fond of the Constitution. For the government school victims in…
Network Neutrality is absolutely awful policy. It is a huge government imposition on the entirety of the Internet. It has zero business being even considered – by any nation laying even the remotest claim to being a free market economy. Net Neutrality is a ginormous Fourth Amendment violation. Private Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have spent…
The world last week was rightly agog when Tech uber-giant Apple became the first company on the planet ever to top a $1 trillion market cap. And many people think that’s only the beginning. VC Gene Munster: Apple Is in a ‘Paradigm Shift’ That Will Make It Worth Even More than $1 Trillion How did…
Will wonders never cease. We who follow the goings-on in Washington, D.C. – are used to not a lot of good going on. We have time and again seen lots and lots of awful legislation – pass and become law. We have seen lots of last-second omnibus-ing. Massive, unread spending bills passed at the very…
The Barack Obama Administration was a very bad era in the nation’s Intellectual Property (IP) history. The Obama Administration was chock full of historic firsts. To wit: It was almost unquestionably the administration most hostile ever to IP and its protection. Perhaps the administration’s most egregious act? Inventing a whole new way to attack patents…
Believe me when I say: I believe with moral certitude and every fiber in my being that the federal government – in ways more numerous than the stars in the sky – is way overdue for massive and dramatic reform. But I am a staunch conservative – and less government proponent. You know who else…
Time and again, the Donald Trump Administration has done the exact opposite of what the predecessor Barack Administration did. Most thankfully – for the health and well being of our nation. Obama imposed tens of thousands of pages of new regulations. Trump has been cutting twenty-two regs for every one he adds. Obama imposed Obamacare. …