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Jimmy Carter's Costly Patent Mistake

• cptsunshine 13y ago
  Argh, paywall.
  • dminor 13y ago
    I had to google for the title to get around it.
  • elidourado 13y ago
    Defeat the paywall: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jimmy+Carter%27s+Costly+Patent+Mistake https://www.google.com/search?q=Jimmy+Carter%27s+Costly+Pate...
• wpietri 13y ago
  The article might be a bit of interesting history, but the title is incredible bullshit. I understand that the US right loves kicking Jimmy Carter around, but framing it as if JC actually said, "Hey, I've got an idea," is ridiculous. This is the same writer whose recent column on the NSA the EFF just called "misleading and error-filled": https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/wall-street-journal-columnist-gordon-crovitz-repeatedly-gets-his-facts-wrong-about https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/wall-street-journal-co... The court he's referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Federal_Circuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_... That was created by an act passed April 2, 1982: http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/landmark_22.html http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/landmark_22.html Which means it was the 97th Congress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97th_United_States_Congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97th_United_States_Congress So the Senate was Republican and the house was Democratic, with the bill being signed by Ronald Reagan, who also, I'm sure, appointed any new judges. But yeah, it's all Jimmy Carter's fault. Totally. Lord knows what else the guy got wrong, so I'm stopping there.