Re: Random question time: Can a state protect its laws as intellectual property?
rAndy aL Send a noteboard - 27/02/2010 04:43:11 AM
For instance, could Hawaii or Massachusetts patent their health care systems as business models so that any another state or the federal government would have to negotiate an agreement allowing the use of similar systems or subsystems?
In America, anything at all can be patented. A state could protect it's laws, health care system, or anything else run by the state.
Could an...um...entrepreneurial state like California hope someday to recoup the costs of its legal research and development should any of its crazier initiatives become popular with other states?
Well, that's not likely to happen. Supposing they created a law that actually became popular, they could potentially come to an agreement with the other states should those states wish to copy that law. Of course, that would require them to protect their law first.
Could the federal government require that states stop enforcing all state laws plagiarized from federal codes?
No, but they could force the states to cite the relevent federal codes in their laws.
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