The more they get away with putting taxes like this into effect, the more likely they'll be able to get away with adding similar taxes on all kinds of products like our MP3 Players, Flash Cards, Etc...
I think we need to have a tax on cars, too. Someone may use them to rob a home, business, or bank...but we'll only give the collected taxes to the banks cause that is what passes for logic these days.
I don't know about all of you, but I feel that if you're going to legally "own" a patent...that you have to show that you are trying to use it. Basically, you can't just sit on an idea/patent until someone else comes up with it on their own, then swoop on in and sue the pants off of them.
You want to be protected by the patent laws? Then in exchange for this protection, you have to actually use it.
Any patent holder that cannot show actual proof of use after a certain period of time loses their patent to the public domain. The length of time would depend on what type of patent it is. Software patents, for example, would be a short time period.
As far as i'm concerned, you do not deserve to be protected by patent law if you're not going to use it...
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The more they get away with putting taxes like this into effect, the more likely they'll be able to get away with adding similar taxes on all kinds of products like our MP3 Players, Flash Cards, Etc...
I think we need to have a tax on cars, too. Someone may use them to rob a home, business, or bank...but we'll only give the collected taxes to the banks cause that is what passes for logic these days.
I don't know about all of you, but I feel that if you're going to legally "own" a patent...that you have to show that you are trying to use it. Basically, you can't just sit on an idea/patent until someone else comes up with it on their own, then swoop on in and sue the pants off of them.
You want to be protected by the patent laws?
Then in exchange for this protection, you have to actually use it.
Any patent holder that cannot show actual proof of use after a certain period of time loses their patent to the public domain. The length of time would depend on what type of patent it is. Software patents, for example, would be a short time period.
As far as i'm concerned, you do not deserve to be protected by patent law if you're not going to use it...
So....its a really super-duper fancy "allow-only" list then, eh?