{"id":113,"date":"2005-04-26T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=113"},"modified":"2005-04-26T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T13:31:07","slug":"rights-to-patent-enshrined-in-the-constitution-of-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Rights to patent enshrined in the constitution of the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting discussion with a friend of mine over the past few days about the origins of patents &#038; the constitutional rights of patenters to protect their <em>Intellectual Property<\/em>. This is especially interesting considering the furore in Europe over the <a href=\"http:\/\/swpat.ffii.org\/\">software patents<\/a> issue. Well in the good old US, the founding fathers enshrined in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/Constitution\/Constitution.html\">constitution<\/a> of 1789.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Congress shall have Power . . .<br \/>\nTo promote the Progress of Science and the useful<br \/>\nArts, by securing for limited<br \/>\nTimes to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right<br \/>\nto their respective Writings and Discoveries . . .<br \/>\nTo make all Laws which shall be necessary and<br \/>\nproper for carrying into Execution the Foregoing<br \/>\nPowers . . .&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an interesting discussion with a friend of mine over the past few days about the origins of patents &#038; the constitutional rights of patenters to protect their Intellectual Property. This is especially interesting considering the furore in Europe over the software patents issue. Well in the good old US, the founding fathers enshrined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}