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Agree with almost all
except the expiration at the death of the inventor. I don't know whether your constitution says what you say it says, but it seems reasonable that his heirs should benefit the same timeframe.
If you mean that the inventor is the only one that should hold the rights (i.e. he may not sell them to other entities such as software firms or record labels), you are wrong again, they are his rights and he can do with them as he pleases.

As I understand, the PTO violates other good principles also, most notably non-obviousness and prior art. At least regarding software patents. I don't mean to say patents are intrinsically good, however it seems that the bulk of the problem indeed comes from these violations.
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Killing the goose...  John L. Ries | 07/29/05
Re: Patents/Copyrights  IanX | 07/29/05
why ?  vladsim | 08/01/05
But,  Update victim | 08/01/05
Agree with almost all  vladsim | 08/02/05
Patent the very air we breathe and asphyxiate us to death.  HypnoToad | 07/30/05
It is time we stand up and march for patent change  Boot_Agnostic | 07/31/05
I'm gonna patent AIR!  Reverend MacFellow | 07/31/05
You Can't Really Patent Air  coffeenite | 08/01/05
What ever happened to Google's promise of 'Do No Wrong' ?  JJ_z | 08/01/05
I'll give you 290.60 guesses...  John Zern | 08/01/05
We can only hope...  BitTwiddler | 08/01/05
There is something about software patents that use open standards  Taz_z | 08/01/05
Must deny this patent  Tomer_z | 08/02/05

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