Denis O'Brien, PhD/Esq.

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Since January 1, 2007 I have been working a 9-to-5 gig at Vermette & Co.of Vancouver, British Columbia.  The quickest way to reach me is: dobrien@vermettco.com.  

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"The Congress shall have Power . . .To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Article I, Section 8
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"Letters patent are . . .public franchises granted to the inventors of new and useful improvements for the purpose of securing to them, as such inventors, for the limited term therein mentioned, the exclusive right and liberty to make and use and vend to others to be used their own inventions, as tending to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, and as matter of compensation to the inventors for their labor, toil, and expense in making the inventions, and reducing the same to practice for the public benefit, as contemplated by the Constitution and sanctioned by the laws of Congress"

-- The U.S. Supreme Court
Seymour v. Osborne 78 U.S. 516 (1871)


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