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

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>]

Trever L. Adams wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:48 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States 
>>Constitution, and patents
>>are not going away.  
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Trever
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I was informed earlier in this thread the uspto restructured the 
regulations and section 113 was
out of their procedures regulations.

 Jeff