Re: The patent process [Was Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending]

[Rahul Dhesi]

Al Dente <jabailo@earthlink.net> writes:

>The rest of your points are spurious because they rest on your assertion 
>that a Patent is a 'law' therefore you re-iterate statements about 
>'legislation' in order to effect a comparison.  But a Patent is not a 
>Law -- it is more what would be called an Entitlement.

The above is a pretty stupid comment, given that the original poster was
quite careful and precise in his wording:

  A patent is a government action -- certainly not a law or an agency
  regulation in the usual sense, but a government action with the force
  of law and enforceable through the judicial system, that grants rights
  to some, takes away rights from others.
-- 
Rahul