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Right, because the civil legal system means you're going to jail if you don't comply! It's not a system where the loser goes to jail, don't pass go, don't collect $200.

Libertarians crack me up. They're more disconnected from reality than the people they accuse of the same. The issue with the patent system as it is now is not the entire system, but rather the shortcomings of its implementation.




Point of fact: you do go to jail if you don't do what is commanded.

Another point of fact: sarcasm and sneering are not an argument.


I'm no lawyer, but I do not believe it's possible, or at least it's highly unlikely that somebody would go to jail should they not pay up in a patent case ruling against them. If anything you'll have your assets seized and you'll file bankruptcy and that's the end of that. Pretty shitty, yes, but far from getting sent to jail.

Yes, my post was sarcastic, but at least I'm rooted in reality instead of speaking in pure conjecture and hypothesis. There was more to my comment than just sarcasm, though you chose to ignore it and instead continue with the rhetoric.




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