The power to regulate trade or commerce between the states with foreign nations and with the Indian tribes. The power to establish a uniform system of weights and measures. The power to set up a system of postal roads. The power to establish a system of intellectual property laws, trademarks, copyrights, and patents [is a federal power]. Basically, they used slightly different language then, but the idea was to protect the right of authors and inventors, to protect their art, so to speak, whether that was a design or an invention, a poem, a book, whatever it is. (29:25–29:32)
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Asserts that intellectual property laws are a federal power.
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