Patent fee diversion crosses constitutional boundary

Article Abstract:

The author argues that the funding of the US Patent and Trademark Office through user fees acts as a special tax against owners of intellectual property and violates the Intellectual Property Clause of the Constitution. Precedents from the early English patent law system are discussed.

United Kingdom, Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Finance, Patent licenses, Patent licensing, Legislative power, United States. Patent and Trademark Office

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The Plant Patent Act of 1930: a sociological history of its creation

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The Plant Patent Act of 1930 (PPA), which provided asexually reproduced varieties of domesticated plants with patent protection, is discussed placing the law within the social, scientific and legal context of its day. Lobbyists equated the PPA with mechanical invention.

Plants, Plants (Organisms)

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Address to American Inn of Court inaugural meeting, October 1, 1991

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Judge Giles S. Rich of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gives a 1991 speech on the founding of an American Inn of Court with his name on it. Rich gives a brief life story and recounts how he became involved with patent law.

Speeches, lectures and essays, Transcript, Rich, Giles S.

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