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Bill: Save the small scale engineering sector!
Details
Submitted by[?]: Parti d'Aube Dorée
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 4230
Description[?]:
| Small-scale inventors fall prey to giant corporations copying their ideas . This development is destroying the employment opportunities for small engineers who seek to live from the money they gain by selling their inventions. Without proper legislation around patent etc., They can not be protected from greedy businesses who seek to impudently steal another man's creations. |
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 | 15:52:23, June 22, 2017 CET | From | Grand Front Libéral | To | Debating the Save the small scale engineering sector! |
| Message | Patents are anti-free market and anti-freedom of speech. Patents enforce monopolies and prevent the trade of ideas. |
| Date | 18:16:58, June 22, 2017 CET | From | Parti Conservateur Libertaire | To | Debating the Save the small scale engineering sector! |
| Message | We don't have any corporations left. You've got rid of them all. You cannot continue to use this outdated excuse. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 66 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 182 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 61 |
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