Re: Patents

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From: Raul Rockwell
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1991 13:28

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Joe Buck:
   >For the third time, here is the relevant passage, from Article I,
   >section 8:

   >  The Congress shall have Power ...  To promote the Progress of
   >Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors
   >and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
   >Discoveries;

   >Note the following:

David A Keldsen:
   The reason given IN THAT PASSAGE is as you say.  However, that is
   not the only relevant passage.

      5th Amendment: No person shall be ...  deprived of life,
      liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall
      private property be taken for public use, without just
      compensation.

Um... since when are thoughts "property"?  It seems to me that patents
deprive everyone, except the person who files them, a certain amount
of liberty.

In other words, what's the point, here?  Are patents somehow justified
because people will die without them?

-- 
Raul <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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