Inustrial property

[Xavi Drudis Ferran]

El Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:55:44PM +0100, Alessandro Rubini deia:
> 
> BTW, the _industrial_ patent is for industry. It doesn't make sense
> with services like business models, abstract ideas and computer
> programs.  Yes, the full name of the "patent" is "industrial patent",
> at least in some countries.
> 

Indeed.

And patents = industrial patents are _industrial property_ not
_intellectual property_ . Calling both copyright and patents
intellectual property is a nomenclature trick to expand the extend of
patents beyond what its natural by first polluting language and then
law.

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Xavi Drudis Ferran
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