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Bill: Patent Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Telamon
Status[?]: defeated
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: March 2038
Description[?]:
| Patenting will become legal |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | This is a very bad idea. The code (software) is very well protected by copyright. Patents are for much wider ideas, and will create monopolies. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | Real world proposed software patents (doubleclicking, one-click-shopping etc) are comparable to patenting the wheel. |
| Date | not recorded | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | We agree with the Libertarians, the actual coding of software should be protected, as it is and that is enough. It is not necessary, indeed it is counterproductive to patent software techniques. Therefore we cannot support this bill and feel that it should be withdrawn. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Liberal Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | let me explain, if bob was to spend 500 million on a cpu chip, this act stops fred from reverses engineering it and aquireing the same techology for 10 thousand, this will stop people from getting riped off |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 1 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 96 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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