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Ryan Bradley & Mike Quirk LJST 24 May 10, 2004 Professor Delaney Property, Liberty, and the Law "Protecting Intellectual Property through Patents" Property is one of the ultimate indicators of wealth in our society. Property laws help everyone, even the property less. Order through property laws allow the people to be engaged in the free market economy with little fear of losing everything they have because someone bigger and stronger took it from them. Property laws prevent societal chaos. Property covers a wide array of "things," from pencils and televisions to yachts and buildings, it even includes ideas. Almost everything has an owner, from a tree branch overhanging a country road per Heckert v. Patrick to the design of a back massager. Intellectual property is the category of property consisting of these intangible things, patents, copyrights, and trademarks. What we plan to do in this paper is to depict the history of patent law,...

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