16 Nov 2007
Consumer groups urge Supreme Court to curb patent power

Once again, large corporations are attempting to use the courts to take away their customers property rights. But a a sale is a sale, and if this principle actually gets upheld and propagates, we're going to be in for an endless stream of lawsuits, and an eventual and complete abrogation of our right to own anything.

The US Supreme Court has been urged not to make it illegal to sell second-hand patented goods. Digital rights activists have begun a campaign to keep a buyer's right to sell on used goods.

(link) [The Register]

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