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Bill: Patents Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's 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: March 2042
Description[?]:
| A bill to introduce copyrights for software and other intellectual property |
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 | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | What kind of things are presently unpatentable, and what effect would bringing this to law have on our economy? |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | Right now all kinds of software work from operating systems right to BPO. Protecting works ensures that there will be constant innovation. As it stands any innovation is punished since the firm which spends its money developing software finds its technology stolen by rivals. IAs a result nobody invest in new ideas or technology . |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | Replaced with innovation by large scale collaboration. Swings and roundabouts. We're for the status quo. |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | I have yet to see something like medicinal drugs being developed by the status qou. These take very long and cost tremendous amounts of money to develop and bring to market. You'd be fool to try to do that without patents. The same applies to a lot of software as well. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | However that leads to innovation only in profitable areas. Despite increasingly desparate need there have been no new anti biotics for nearly 50 years - there is not enough profit in them. Opensource is being increasingly seen as a viable buisiness model for other sectors of the economy. |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | I suggest you check your facts ...here's what I found....http://www.molbio.princeton.edu/courses/mb427/2001/projects/02/antibiotics.htm Yes it's true that a lot of money gets spent on things like viagra and fat reducing drugs. However, there is a lot of money spent on cancer research , aids and many other important diseases. Opensource works well as a way to do simple stuff. Nobody is going to put up $359 million to develop a new drug everytime, if there is no profit in it. http://ihumans.com/news_comments_archive/cost_of_drug_development.htm |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | Fair enough, I used a different source so I had checked my facts. I think we will have to agree to disagree. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Centrist Party | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | You're going to agree to disagree, and I'm going to have to agree to abstain. |
| Date | not recorded | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | I have a feeling Rakko, that you may have something to ask...so go ahead and ask it. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Right Wing Liberals Party | To | Debating the Patents Act |
| Message | I cannot accept the unauthorised use of someones property that they very well may have spent years working on. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 32 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 49 |
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