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Write Your Own Laws With Patents

Posted by timothy on from the thinking-different dept.

Billy the Mountain writes "At Scientific American's website there's an short and interesting article describing how the lack of scrutiny in the patent department enables ordinary citizens to manipulate the system with the effect of writing new laws. (Meanwhile, I'm busy patenting taxation and will be unable to answer any emails this week. Oh, and you can thank me later! :)"

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  1. Re:patents and copywrites by JessLeah · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not sure that's such a hot idea. That would put even more pressure on the companies to pull Dirty Tricks(TM) to squash the free market (a la Microsoft) and/or cook the books (a la Enron)... It just seems to me like a rule like this would do little but encourage corruption. And that would be Bad(TM)... :/

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