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By Shannon P. Duffy
Posted on 4/14/1999
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The Legal Intelligencer
April 14, 1999
Patently Obvious
By Shannon P. Duffy
U.S. Courthouse Correspondent
Promising to slash the costs of litigating patent cases–both in money and time–a group of in-house and private patent lawyers are touring the country to persuade their colleagues to join the newly formed National Patent Board.
Dubbed ``a court of first resort,'' the NPB is the brain-child of Jacobus ``Koos'' Rasser, Procter & Gamble's vice president and general counsel in charge of patents worldwide. As the mother of all intellectual property ADRs, the NPB says it can cut the average costs of battling over a patent from $1.5 million down to $100,000.
And it's over in six months. That's a promise.
So far, industry seems extremely enthusiastic. Computer chip giant Intel Corp. has signed on, along with General Electric, Mobil, DuPont, Rohm & Haas and Hewlitt Packard.
I have long been a proponent of fully privatized courts here in the United States. I don't consider there to be any conflict between the principle of private courts and Article III of the Constitution, which establishes the Supreme Court and defines its parameters. I personally favor a system of private courts that would operate under the supervision of the Supreme Court and other federal and local courts, which would have appellate powers, and I do not believe this would conflict with the Constitution or the intentions of the men who wrote it.HTML Code:http://www.mises.org/story/197
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
-Alexander Hamilton
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