Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:31:09 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609] |
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Trever L. Adams wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:48 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > >>Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States >>Constitution, and patents >>are not going away. >> >> > >Merkey aren't you supposed to be a lawyer? Unless you do some funky >concatenation of articles and sections you can't find a section 113 (and >probably not even then) in the Constitution. > >It is Article 1 Section 8. It also says they shall have that power and >that the intent is to promote the advances of arts and sciences. It >doesn't say that patents are the methods to be used. It doesn't say 17 >years (or the whole 70/life+75 crap for copyrights). I think many very >intelligent people have and will show that allowing patents on ideas >(software patents are only this) tend to destroy such advances. > >Yeah, yeah, from time to time there is someone who seems to show that >they help... however, 90% of those seem to be backed by MS or SCO. >Interesting considering many people, including Bill Gates, said quite >differently in the past. > >Trever > > I was informed earlier in this thread the uspto restructured the regulations and section 113 was out of their procedures regulations.
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