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Bill: Patent Act of 2119
Details
Submitted by[?]: Peoples' Will Party
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: December 2120
Description[?]:
| To allow for patents on technology. |
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 | 01:17:36, October 03, 2005 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Patent Act of 2119 |
| Message | Why do you propose this? |
| Date | 23:35:18, October 03, 2005 CET | From | Peoples' Will Party | To | Debating the Patent Act of 2119 |
| Message | To allow for companies to patent their product, and to open up competetion to allow for a boom in the technology. |
| Date | 02:58:19, October 04, 2005 CET | From | Tukarali Centrist Party | To | Debating the Patent Act of 2119 |
| Message | What exactly are the benefits? It seems to us that the current law will also allow for competition and prevent monopolies. Anyways, we are still undecided on this one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 66 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 142 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 91 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow real-life brand names (eg. Coca Cola, McDonalds, Microsoft). However, in the case of military equipment brand names it is permitted to use simple number-letter combinations (eg. T-90 and F-22) borrowed from real life, and also simple generic names, like those of animals (eg. Leopard and Jaguar). |
| Random quote: "Corruption greases the wheels of government, and my private jet." - Sung Dae Kim, former Dranian politician |