Congress (In-) Action: Resolving a Court Created Gordian Knot on Software Patents

C. Sheppard
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The possession of power does not assure its exercise. The Constitution makes clear that should Congress choose to grant patents Congress does not have to, but should they so choose, Congress is limited to implementations that 1) “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” 2) are “for limited times” 3) to “Authors and Inventors” solely for their “writings and discoveries” and 4) the right is “exclusive.” Yet, while the Congress has chosen to exercise the power to create a monopoly right and modified the law as recently as 2011 to balance the equities, the most basic notion of what should be eligible for consideration for patent has not been directly addressed by the Congress since the 1952 Patent Act. While Congress is the entity constitutionally charged with deciding what implementations promote the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts, this determination has been abdicated to the Courts and has been particularly problematic in the area of software patents. The following are four suggestions for immediate Congressional action to cut the Court created Gordian Knot.
国会行动:解决法院在软件专利上制造的死结
拥有权力并不保证行使权力。宪法明确指出,如果国会选择授予专利,国会不必这样做,但如果他们这样选择,国会仅限于以下实施:1)“促进科学和实用艺术的进步”;2)“在有限的时间内”;3)仅为“作者和发明家”的“作品和发现”;4)权利是“排他性的”。然而,尽管国会选择行使创造垄断权的权力,并在最近的2011年修改了法律以平衡股权,但自1952年《专利法》(patent Act)以来,国会就没有直接解决什么应该有资格获得专利的最基本概念。虽然国会是宪法上负责决定哪些实现促进科学和实用艺术进步的实体,但这一决定已被移交给法院,并且在软件专利领域尤其成问题。以下是国会立即采取行动的四条建议,以解决最高法院制造的棘手问题。
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