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To: gpapa

Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist.


5 posted on 06/08/2007 11:10:31 PM PDT by sourcery (Just say NO to the Mexican Invasion Surrender Bill [Kill the Bill, Vol. 2])
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To: sourcery

What do you mean by that?


9 posted on 06/08/2007 11:19:45 PM PDT by since1868 (Fred Thompson the real deal!!)
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To: sourcery

The duplicating of competitors, patent protected product designs is thievery, witness the numerous violations of our patent laws by countries such as China.


12 posted on 06/08/2007 11:22:36 PM PDT by gpapa
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To: sourcery
Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist.

That is an extraordinary claim. Defend your position.

13 posted on 06/08/2007 11:24:01 PM PDT by null and void ("Wherever liberty has sprouted around the world, we find American blood at its roots.")
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To: sourcery

Patents are a contract between an inventor and society. The inventor discloses a new process in exchange for a limited monopoly. If we did not do this many processes would never be developed in the first place or would kept secret forever.


15 posted on 06/08/2007 11:26:52 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: sourcery

Wow.
That is one of the dumbest things I have read on this site in a long time.


17 posted on 06/08/2007 11:42:44 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: sourcery
Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist.

are you nuts, or just Chinese?

20 posted on 06/08/2007 11:56:02 PM PDT by Wil H (So just who decided that the current global climate was optimum?)
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To: sourcery

No Patents are government enforced ANTI theft of ideas.


28 posted on 06/09/2007 2:23:10 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: sourcery
Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist.

The Founders disagreed with you.

30 posted on 06/09/2007 2:31:30 AM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: sourcery
Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist.

Interesting interpretation of the U. S. Constitution.

32 posted on 06/09/2007 2:51:14 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush your enemies; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women - Conan)
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To: sourcery

“Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist.”

I wonder if you’d be saying that if you were a patent holder?

Patents are a way to reward innovative and creative work.

Without them many companies simply wouldn’t take the financial risks of doing the basic R&D necessary to innovate.


38 posted on 06/09/2007 4:53:14 AM PDT by EEDUDE (The more I know, the less I understand...)
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To: sourcery

Obviously, you have never had an inventive, creative idea — much less be holder of one or more patents. Sour grapes?


40 posted on 06/09/2007 6:24:40 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: sourcery
“Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist.”

Tell that to Ben Franklin. Patents are a way of seeing that the inventor is able to profit by is or her invention for a reasonable amount of time.

If that isn’t the way it works anymore, then you need to tell it to Congress, as they are the ones responsible today.

41 posted on 06/09/2007 7:12:01 AM PDT by Old Student (We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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To: sourcery
"Patents are government-enforced theft. They should not exist."

Brilliant idea.... if implemented, that would be the absolute LAST briliant idea ever brought to the market.....

Grow up

42 posted on 06/09/2007 7:35:56 AM PDT by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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To: sourcery
U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 8:

The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors their respective Writings and Discoveries..."

52 posted on 06/10/2007 8:25:24 AM PDT by c-five
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To: sourcery

I take it you’re a programmer?

I have a good friend who’s an insanely talented programmer- he thinks patent laws are evil too!


54 posted on 06/19/2007 7:30:45 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (THOMPSON NEEDS TO CLARIFY HIS POSITION ON THE SPP BEFORE I SUPPORT HIM.)
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