Assertion: patent's term | /r/CapableOf | operate as a catch-all
Facets:
value: to lump disparate laws
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: He claims that the term "operates as a catch-all to lump together disparate laws [which] originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues" and that it creates a "bias" by confusing these monopolies with ownership of limited physical things, likening them to "property rights".