Re: [Patents] Washington Times: Internet Patents Divide Industry

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> > > You own the patent not the idea. The problem is that immaterial property
> > > carry the idea that you own "the idea", not "an exclusive right on the
> > > idea".
> >
> > You own the right to exclude others from something, e.g. from the use of
> > an idea or the use of a piece of land.
>
> Note the difference between "exclusive right" meaning "the right to exclude"
> and "exclusive right" meaning a particular right "exclusively for the
> author."

I don't see a difference.

It can only be exclusively for the author if it includes a right for him
to enforce exclusion of others.

If there was a difference, that would mean that "exclusive right" is
an ambiguous word probably "exclusion right" is to be preferred.