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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (229558)	11/19/2009 10:53:58 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I hold a number of patents of my own. I certainly think protecting lives and property are essential parts of government. Unfortunately there are lots of issues in the details. God didn't hand us any of the details, nor did the Founding Fathers. We have to work those out on our own. And.....we do not have a free market in the U.S. and nor do we have capitalism. For all the talk of the failure of capitalism, what we have seen is the failure of government intervention Too bad we can't run the experiment over a couple of times. 1) With no governmental intervention during the implosion, and 2) with better regulation during the bubble. It would be an interesting contrast and I suspect it would nicely show how dead wrong your above claim is.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (229558)	11/19/2009 11:13:39 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

I see the protection of intellectual property to be on par with the protection of personal property. Do you believe that the government should protect your personal property from others? Or do you think it would be ok for me to come and take your home and your car? Sooo.... 1) Do you think that patent protection should be perpetual, or perhaps for the life of the inventor, or the assignee, or their respective heirs? or 2) Do you think that your personal property can be stolen after you've owned it for 20 years. Or what about the following: You've built a house and are living in it, and the government comes along and says, guess what, we're going to take this away from you and give it to someone across town you've never heard of, because he built a house two weeks before you did. (As in two people independently invent something similar, put it into production, are making money from it, but one filed the patent 2 weeks earlier and the other is now deemed to infringe). Your concepts of IP being equal to personal property are a tad simplistic.