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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:31:09 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>
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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.

 Jeff
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