Article View: gnu.misc.discuss
Article #73499Re: Patents
From: Piercarlo Antonio Grandi
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1991 18:42
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1991 18:42
19 lines
1481 bytes
1481 bytes
dak@sq.sq.com (David A Keldsen) writes: > That is disputable. In particular, part of the 5th amendment protects > property rights, and patents have a long legal history of being > considered property rights. No, they have never been considered property rights. You can have property rights to a patent, but the patent does not confer on you any property rights to your invention, just a monopoly of some sort. So the 5th amendment protects ownership of a patent, not of the invention described therein. Under the US Constitution expressions and inventions are not considered personal property, that's why there is an explicit provision for the possibility of granting of monopolies to authors and inventors. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@aber.ac.uk
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1991Aug31.184217.20959@aber.ac.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!aber!pcgReferences:
<1991Aug26.210003.29553@sq.sq.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9434f7b17f215464 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-31 12:35:23 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!aber!pcg From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Antonio Grandi) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patents Message-ID: <1991Aug31.184217.20959@aber.ac.uk> Date: 31 Aug 91 18:42:17 GMT References: <1991Aug26.210003.29553@sq.sq.com> Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 19