Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

[Jeff V. Merkey]

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.

Jeff
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