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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 09:58 AM EDT |
From the U.S. Constitution:
"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."
How does securing for a limited time to inventors the exclusive right to their
discoveries promote progress?
Not that it matters, as we are once again off on one of your tangents, but I
respectfully submit that it is by providing a monopoly to the inventor that he
or she can exploit to earn a return on investment. Moreover, I think that is
clearly implied in the clause. I think that is clearer than any prohibition
against patenting "laws of nature" or mathematical algorithms in 35
USC 101 which I remind you reads:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture,
or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain
a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Notice the word "discovers". What is there to discover but laws and
products of nature? hmmmmm?
If you see some other way, I'd be happy to hear it.
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