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[Pro and con comment about HR 3460 - Patent Office]  PIML



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Chuck:



At 07:26 PM 6/13/96 GMT, you wrote:



>>It shuts down the US Patient Office and places

>>under private control similiar in nature to the

>>US Post Office.

>

>Let's see...taking another inefficient, ineffective, and oppressive

>agency (the PTO) and moving it to the private sector is a *Communist*

>idea?  





The Post Office is hardly in the private sector.





>I thought Libertarians should be jumping for joy over this.  For every

>job that is saved by a patent, dozens are jeopardized by frivolous

>patent suits.  As more patents are granted each day than in the first

>several years of the PTO's existence, and as they grow wider and wider

>in scope as applicants exaggerate their claims ad absurdum, patents

>keep technological prowess concentrated in very large companies, and

>with every passing day, patents lock entrepreneurs out of the market.





This Libertarian feels that a patent system is one of the few

constitutional and proper functions of federal government.





>And, furthermore, patents keep lawyers powerful.  And we all know that

>this is bad.  :-)





I think that the major point of concern is that under the new law

inventors (large or small) would have a very short period of

protection.





>And the guy who mailed you this to begin with needs to learn the

>difference between a "patient" and a "patent".





I agree that there is a great need for spell checkers in the world

of e-mail.



for Liberty,

Bill



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