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Bill: Patent Act
Details
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: March 2036
Description[?]:
| All technology created by Endralonians should remain explicitly thiers |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The patenting of software techniques.
Old value:: Software designs, techniques, formulae and algorithms cannot be patented.
Current:
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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 |  Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | We oppose this capitalist legislation! |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | it is merely a protection of rights, we allow patents on everything else |
| Date | not recorded | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | Patents on information are absurd. If such a bill was active in ancient times, you'd have to pay Pythagora to use his theorem in basic geometry! |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | Until it expired several hundred years before the birth of Christ, that is. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Communist Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | That wouldn't be much of a consolation for people who lived in Pythagora's time and would have had to pay him every time they used his theorem. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | well, how would you like ti if you're name become hated by 7th grade math classes the world over, and you made no profit off of it? |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | Intellectual property stunts the developement of humanity. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | What happens if this is a draw? |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | well, then we got 50%, i think abstaining counts as yes, if not in politicians minds how does intellectual property stunt hiumanity any more than our other patent laws, which merely protect the ideas of the inventors from being turned into profit by others |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Patent Act |
| Message | To prevent inventors being exploited - expropriate the exploiters. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 20 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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