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Champerty and Other Common Law We Could Use Today
pevans writes "Over on Red Hat's Opensource.com I found this neat summary of a few old laws that could really help us today with the patent trolls. The article 'What's wrong with champerty?' is brief, but full of legal goodness that seems to have fallen by the wayside: 'Let's bring back barratry, maintenance, and champerty for patent lawsuits. Combine that with a limitation on the assignment of patents and a lot of patent trolls would be out of business. ...do patents have to be freely assignable? And why can't we prohibit a cause of action for patent infringement where there is no net gain to society?"
That's what she said!
Does having a witty signature really indicate normality?
Oh, don't forget that it was Clinton abolishing in the year 1999 a law from 1929 that had gotten US into the banking mess. Plus, creating innovative rules for mortgages...
Patents and Copyrights sole purpose is to enhance the society and this justification has to come back into consideration urgently.