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"Fairness" was never the point. The original (written, at least) intent of the patent laws was "to advance the state of the art". Fairness to the inventor neve
by Filligree 12y ago
"Fairness" was never the point.
The original (written, at least) intent of the patent laws was "to advance the state of the art". Fairness to the inventor never enters into it, except to the degree that such a thing is necessary to motivate inventions; if you agree with that, then the patent laws should probably be mostly dismantled.
- throwawaykf05 12y ago"Advancing the state of the art" like all things in patent law, was deliberately broadly written because there are thousands of ways to do so and infinite multitudes of nuances to consider. Fairness absolutely was, and always has been, one of the main points. In fact, all property rights concern fairness, and intellectual property rights are no different.