Article Title

Business Method Patents

Authors

John J. Love

Abstract

Good morning, it's a pleasure to be here alive. We just participated in the daily road race from Washington to Richmond that many of you do every day. The first question I've been asked to deal with is why do we have patents? Of course we're very proud of fact that the PTO's origins date back the Constitution itself. In Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, the framers specifically gave Congress the power to grant inventors, for a limited time, the exclusive right to their inventions. So this is not a product of the industrial revolution but dates back to the Constitution.

Recommended Citation

John J. Love, Business Method Patents, 7 Rich. J.L. & Tech 8 (2000).
Available at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/jolt/vol7/iss2/4