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See this Atlantic article on the case for abolishing patents (with a link to the working paper, commissioned by that radical institution, the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis). Article I, Section 8(8) of the US Constitution provides that : «[The Congress shall have power ...] To promote the...
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I owe you one - put it on the tab !... Henri
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3vi1 ... I have yet to see one of these patent lawsuits where I didn't think the 'invention' (idea, really, as many of these patents aren't associated with a specific product) was completely obvious to anyone practicing in the field of design or implementation. But you have to admit that...
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For my part, I certainly hope that those «people who get even less done than those hard working civil servants we have in Washington» do manage to get something done about the disgusting circus of absurd patents and still more absurd patent litigation we are now witnessing - Judge Posner's...
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This decision by Judge Richard Posner - and those hitherto by Judge William Alsup in Oracle's equally absurd suit against Google - is the best news that's come out of the US legal system in many a year. Just the other day, the US Patent Office granted Apple a patent, N. D661,296 S, on the (from...