Posted on 12/01/2015 6:00:59 PM PST by Kaslin
Is Motley getting “Republican” and “the Right” mixed up, like so many others?
Our patent system is terribly antiquated and no longer encourages innovation. It needs a MAJOR overhaul.
Fail, Mr Motley.
You were incoherent and did not state what the specific issue is.
And I say this as one who has interest in the important topic and was ready to learn something.
Maybe backlash against the robber barons that squash opposition, and obtain in unethical manners licensee to use monopoly rights to soak the public?
“Our patent system is terribly antiquated and no longer encourages innovation. It needs a MAJOR overhaul.”
Ok.
I’m listening.
Article 1 section 8 gives Congress the sole power with respect to copyright and patents. However, since 1790 the Congress had dumped patent duties into the hands of the Executive Branch via the State Department, giving it a separate office from the SecState in 1836; it migrated into the Department of the Interior in 1849, and ended up in the Department of Commerce in 1925. This is one of the first cases of Congress surrendering an enumerated power to the executive branch.
It's about campaign financing.
This might interest you PING!!
Flat wrong.
Patents and copyrights are not property. They are monopolies. The term "intellectual property" is just a rhetorical device to hoodwink you into thinking they are legitimate.
What on Earth is "free-market" about having the government stick a gun in your face?
Exactly. When someone can patent an idea such as, “A program that creates a box for a person to type their name into,” then sue the crap out of anyone who has something like that in their actual program, is a troll.
A patent on an actual invention - a working machine - is legit.
Patents should be eliminated. They don’t reward folks who invent or create new things so much as they reward the person who runs to the patent office first.
Patent Definition, and the Difference between Copyrights and Trademarks
A patent is a property right granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A patent holder may exclude others from using, making, or selling an invention for a limited time. As long as the applicant pays the applicable maintenance fees, the exclusive right for utility and plant patents lasts for a term of 20 years from the application date. The exclusive rights granted for a design patent lasts for 14 years from the date of the grant.
There are three types of patents: utility, design, and plant.
While a patent, with the exclusion of a design patent, protects inventions of new processes, copyright protects published and unpublished original works, including works in literature, music, art, architecture, software, and choreography. Like a patent holder, the copyright owner has exclusive rights, including the right to reproduce, make derivatives, distribute copies, display the work in public, or perform the work publicly.
In some cases, an applicant can obtain both a copyright and a patent. Overlap, for instance, can occur between a design patent and copyright in circumstances where the ornamental design qualifies both for a patent and as a work of art subject to copyright protection.
Was there some point to your post? Patents are called property to trick you into thinking they are legitimate. The boilerplate you posted does not refute this, if that was your intent.
You were incoherent and did not state what the specific issue is.
Ditto.
You can’t “undermine” a system that no longer functions.
Try to brake a patent and see what happens
So you got the recent 2013 law change correct, from first-to-invent to first-to-file, but patents stimulate innovation and the enormous monies required, such as in the drug industry, as one major example. Patents have a huge potential in rewarding the inventors.
I’ve always taken “patent trolls” to be those who buy patents to sue people rather than doing anything of value with the technology.
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