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Have you ever wondered why lawyers themselves have nothing in their field remotely similar to patents?



A though provoking question!

But 99.9% of legal arguments are copies. I.e. ideas with precedence. Copying is to be encouraged.

If legal ideas, which are the fallback of all our rights, could be owned, not even a veneer of justice would remain.




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