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To: razorback-bert

Name the forces in Congress that favor the bill, and those that don’t. That will give a better idea if it is pro or anti-capitalist.


13 posted on 06/01/2008 7:53:31 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: Melchior
Name the forces in Congress that favor the bill, and those that don’t. That will give a better idea if it is pro or anti-capitalist.

It depends on who believes the tripe in this article. This bill is in large part anti-capitalist. Companies are afraid to develop anything these days for fear of getting sued over an overbroad or obvious patent. If they're not afraid, at least they have to count on getting sued for anything they do. That is anti-capitalist and against the constitutional grant of patent monopoly. The first thing that needs to be done take the concept of what can be patented back to about 1980, then let the USPTO keep its money to hire competent examiners, make it easier to challenge a patent, and make it harder to take the USPTO to court over rejected patent applications.

This will result in fewer, but higher-quality, patents, ones that actually "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." Because if they don't then there is absolutely no constitutional basis for their existence. Yes, this is a constitutional issue.

Madison was naive to think that the will of the people could keep government-granted monopolies from being abused. Jefferson's reservations were prescient.

20 posted on 06/01/2008 8:11:16 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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