And under a ridiculous Senate rule, the senator is not permitted to update his page within 60 days of an election. So he may well have well-founded views about patent policy, but none easily found on his page. So I trust I'm being fair in invoking his name to endorse a principle that I agree is crucial and to ask, as he does, where the candidates stand on this fundamental issue affecting the future of innovation on the Net. The antiproperty position had a respectable philosophical tradition, Walker allows, but the fall of the Soviet Union should have put an end to it. Walker's rhetoric betrays a deep confusion - though no doubt a confusion created by lawyers.
Patents are a form of intellectual property.
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