Comments on: Historical Notes on Patents http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Fri, 25 May 2012 13:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: short url http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-33063 short url Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:23:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/#comment-33063 <p>87eb81fb178c Great work http:/0zu.tw/ short url</p> 87eb81fb178c Great work http:/0zu.tw/ short url

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]]> By: kenny http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-48611 kenny Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:59:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/#comment-48611 <p>It's much worse than simply an issue of natural rights vs societal rights. It's an issue of an imaginary right conflicting with a verifiable natural right:<br><br>"But even worse, idea monopolies introduce a way for unconnected individuals to magically impede on the true property rights of one another. If I had been granted a patent on my hypothetical peanut-shaped paper folding technique, I would have the legal authority to restrict you from engaging in folding your paper, with your hands and the exertion of your labor, into the patented peanut shape. My government-invented paper-peanut patent 'property' right over an intangible idea would trespass on your natural physical property right over your hands, your energy, and your tangible paper. Such a conflict between imaginary idea property and real physical property is inevitable, and it is made worse by the fact that my idea monopoly extends not only against you, but against every single living soul who is subject to the patent regime's enforcement."<br><br>(from <a href="http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-ideas-property.html">http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-i...</a>)</p> It’s much worse than simply an issue of natural rights vs societal rights. It’s an issue of an imaginary right conflicting with a verifiable natural right:

“But even worse, idea monopolies introduce a way for unconnected individuals to magically impede on the true property rights of one another. If I had been granted a patent on my hypothetical peanut-shaped paper folding technique, I would have the legal authority to restrict you from engaging in folding your paper, with your hands and the exertion of your labor, into the patented peanut shape. My government-invented paper-peanut patent ‘property’ right over an intangible idea would trespass on your natural physical property right over your hands, your energy, and your tangible paper. Such a conflict between imaginary idea property and real physical property is inevitable, and it is made worse by the fact that my idea monopoly extends not only against you, but against every single living soul who is subject to the patent regime’s enforcement.”

(from http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-i…)

]]> By: kenny http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-33062 kenny Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:59:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/#comment-33062 <p>It's much worse than simply an issue of natural rights vs societal rights. It's an issue of an imaginary right conflicting with a verifiable natural right:</p> <p>"But even worse, idea monopolies introduce a way for unconnected individuals to magically impede on the true property rights of one another. If I had been granted a patent on my hypothetical peanut-shaped paper folding technique, I would have the legal authority to restrict you from engaging in folding your paper, with your hands and the exertion of your labor, into the patented peanut shape. My government-invented paper-peanut patent 'property' right over an intangible idea would trespass on your natural physical property right over your hands, your energy, and your tangible paper. Such a conflict between imaginary idea property and real physical property is inevitable, and it is made worse by the fact that my idea monopoly extends not only against you, but against every single living soul who is subject to the patent regime's enforcement."</p> <p>(from http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-ideas-property.html)</p> It’s much worse than simply an issue of natural rights vs societal rights. It’s an issue of an imaginary right conflicting with a verifiable natural right:

“But even worse, idea monopolies introduce a way for unconnected individuals to magically impede on the true property rights of one another. If I had been granted a patent on my hypothetical peanut-shaped paper folding technique, I would have the legal authority to restrict you from engaging in folding your paper, with your hands and the exertion of your labor, into the patented peanut shape. My government-invented paper-peanut patent ‘property’ right over an intangible idea would trespass on your natural physical property right over your hands, your energy, and your tangible paper. Such a conflict between imaginary idea property and real physical property is inevitable, and it is made worse by the fact that my idea monopoly extends not only against you, but against every single living soul who is subject to the patent regime’s enforcement.”

(from http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2006/04/are-ideas-property.html)

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-48610 MikeT Wed, 05 Apr 2006 19:43:25 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/#comment-48610 <p>Solveig: where is it written that all members of society should have a right to vote? Our own founding fathers did not believe that this right existed. Why shouldn't the right to vote be tied with being a productive member of society, the way it used to be? The poor, and those whose incomes depend on the state, simply cannot be trusted to make good judgement when it is needed on issues that affect the government's budgetary and regulatory powers.</p> Solveig: where is it written that all members of society should have a right to vote? Our own founding fathers did not believe that this right existed. Why shouldn’t the right to vote be tied with being a productive member of society, the way it used to be? The poor, and those whose incomes depend on the state, simply cannot be trusted to make good judgement when it is needed on issues that affect the government’s budgetary and regulatory powers.

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-33061 MikeT Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:43:25 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/04/05/historical-notes-on-patents/#comment-33061 <p>Solveig: where is it written that all members of society should have a right to vote? Our own founding fathers did not believe that this right existed. Why shouldn't the right to vote be tied with being a productive member of society, the way it used to be? The poor, and those whose incomes depend on the state, simply cannot be trusted to make good judgement when it is needed on issues that affect the government's budgetary and regulatory powers.</p> Solveig: where is it written that all members of society should have a right to vote? Our own founding fathers did not believe that this right existed. Why shouldn’t the right to vote be tied with being a productive member of society, the way it used to be? The poor, and those whose incomes depend on the state, simply cannot be trusted to make good judgement when it is needed on issues that affect the government’s budgetary and regulatory powers.

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