Talk:History of patent law

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[edit] Duplication of content

Much of the History of Patents section of the Patent article duplicates what's here (some of does so verbatim). I suggest removing the material from the Patent article and merging it here.Bryan 21:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I concur with your proposal. --Edcolins 21:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion of article --Ankon Ray 15:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I have provided a portion of one of my term papers dealing with Patentability of method of performing mental act, if anyone has time to spare I believe this can be reformatted and summarized to contribute substantially to the expansion of this article. This is essentially a filtered and corrected version of an article that may still available at http://www.altlawforum.org/ (I am not sure, the site seems to be down and the term paper in question is at least one year old. In any case the original article does not have sufficient originality to be copyrighted as it is only a collection of historical facts and neither does the relevant portion of my paper though the entire paper would be copyrightable.)

[edit] I'm blanking the probably copyrighted material

I don't think that we're in a good place to judge the sufficiency of the originality of the source article. A collection of facts may not be copyrightable but the prose articulating the facts would be. mmmbeer^{T / C / ?} 18:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

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