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Bill: Software patent Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federalists Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2385
Description[?]:
| This bill remove the option for people to file frivolous software patents, thus removing a chilling effect on advancements in new technology. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Current: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Proposed: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:18:34, April 04, 2007 CET | From | Federalists Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | OOC: As a software developer, I have found that patents of this nature are a big mistake. Large companies are able to patent an obvious method and play patent troll with the industry, this stifling advancement. We support IP rights and copyright owners, but allowing software patents only hurts the nation. |
| Date | 19:36:16, April 04, 2007 CET | From | Royal Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | We trust in Fedīs judgement. :-) |
| Date | 22:19:12, April 04, 2007 CET | From | Social Conservative Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | We don't :) We beleive that the research of skilled developers, whom put in countless of hours of their work should be able to protect their work and gain the rewards for their work without others using it as they wish. |
| Date | 23:55:42, April 04, 2007 CET | From | Federalists Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | Normally we would agree SCP. However, software patents are not like patenting the light bulb. Amazon patented the one click shopping button. Hardly a revolutionary idea. Patent trolling does not reward countless hours of work, but rather stifles innovation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3920793.stm). |
| Date | 00:16:06, April 05, 2007 CET | From | Social Conservative Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | Then it is the laws definition of Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms that needs to be changed and re-defined better to avoid such excamples. I do not think abolishing a law is the sollution. |
| Date | 00:27:27, April 05, 2007 CET | From | Federalists Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | Particracy has the two IP issues split between art and technology, and software patents. Wantuni already protects Intellectual property rights to art and technology (as it should), so it is not a matter of definitions, but a matter of allowing software patents or not. |
| Date | 08:00:51, April 05, 2007 CET | From | Social Conservative Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | No it is a matter of definition. Is the Amazon one click shopping button a thing that is so "diffirent" and "Revolutionary" that it should have a patent. No. The definition needs altering, not the law. |
| Date | 17:06:45, April 05, 2007 CET | From | Federalists Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | That is exactly the kind of thing being done with software patents. We believe you have missed the point altogether. |
| Date | 17:47:10, April 05, 2007 CET | From | Social Conservative Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented You want to bann software patents. |
| Date | 01:22:57, April 06, 2007 CET | From | Federalists Party | To | Debating the Software patent Reform |
| Message | That would be the purpose of the bill, yes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 299 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 201 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "It is better to abolish serfdom from above than wait for it to abolish itself from below." - Alexander II of Russia |