http://tacticalip.com/2009/12/09/the-solution-to-the-bcs-conundrum-found-at-the-patent-office/ Harnessing the strategic power of Intellectual Property Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:12:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://tacticalip.com/2009/12/09/the-solution-to-the-bcs-conundrum-found-at-the-patent-office/#comment-105 Mark Malek Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:28:15 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=556#comment-105 I believe it is the same clause that gives Congress the power to look into Steriod use in Major League Baseball, i.e., the I cannot find another way to waste tax payer dollars today, so I will now get involved with professional sports clause. Incidentally, this is similar to the clause that the President is thinking about relying on to limit the pay of CEO's at private companies. I believe it is the same clause that gives Congress the power to look into Steriod use in Major League Baseball, i.e., the I cannot find another way to waste tax payer dollars today, so I will now get involved with professional sports clause. Incidentally, this is similar to the clause that the President is thinking about relying on to limit the pay of CEO’s at private companies.

]]> http://tacticalip.com/2009/12/09/the-solution-to-the-bcs-conundrum-found-at-the-patent-office/#comment-104 jfischer1975 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:16:23 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=556#comment-104 I just wanna know which <a href="http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei#section8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Article I legislative power</a> provides the authority for Congress to stick their dirty little fingers into college football.  And don't tell me it's the commerce power, or I'll shoot you with my gun, which I can bring into a school without violating federal law.  <i>See</i> <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/514/549/case.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><i>United States v. Lopez</i>, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)</a> ("the scope of the interstate commerce power must be considered in the light of our dual system of government and may not be extended so as to embrace effects upon interstate commerce so indirect and remote that to embrace them, in view of our complex society, would effectually obliterate the distinction between what is national and what is local and create a completely centralized government." (internal quotes omitted)). I just wanna know which Article I legislative power provides the authority for Congress to stick their dirty little fingers into college football.  And don’t tell me it’s the commerce power, or I’ll shoot you with my gun, which I can bring into a school without violating federal law.  See United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) (“the scope of the interstate commerce power must be considered in the light of our dual system of government and may not be extended so as to embrace effects upon interstate commerce so indirect and remote that to embrace them, in view of our complex society, would effectually obliterate the distinction between what is national and what is local and create a completely centralized government.” (internal quotes omitted)).

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