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Bill: Intellectual Property Rights & Technology Enhancement Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Capitalist Working Families
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: February 2444
Description[?]:
This bill simply asserts the fundamental and INALIENABLE right of the people of this Commonwealth to file a patent for a software or computer design of their OWN imagination and labor. Thank you for your full support. |
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 | 00:55:43, August 18, 2007 CET | From |  Vaguely-Remembered Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property Rights & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | okay...i had a bill made with this proposed. wasn't necesary, but okay. |
| Date | 22:15:42, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Vaguely-Remembered Party | To | Debating the Intellectual Property Rights & Technology Enhancement Act |
| Message | why do you vote against this? i really don't understand. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 239 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 358 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 153 |
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