We are working on a brand new version of the game! If you want to stay informed, read our blog and register for our mailing list.
Bill: Patent Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vrné Eslam (Green Theocracy)
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: February 3660
Description[?]:
| Software patents stifle innovation and allow companies to restrict the right to use quite basic and obvious techniques. They must be abolished. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Current: Software patents can be obtained from the patent office.
Proposed: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
subscribe to this discussion - unsubscribeVoting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 544 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 41 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 66 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "More Medicament Manufacture take the profits, workers take the factory" - Boros Norbert, former Endralonian businessman |