A patent doesn ' t give you a right to practice your invention . It gives you a right to exclude others from practicing your inventionbut that doesn ' t make sense to me . I ' ve always thought that the point of a patent was to incentivize research and invention . So companies will be willing to spend a lot of money doing research if they know they can recoup the cost of that research by having some exclusivity when they finally make the product for some time . If the purpose is to prevent others practice your invention then doesn ' t that hold everyone back ? <| sep |> In California we got a huge movement to count the votes , mostly the Provisional votes , in the millions , during the primary . The group that did it is on FB as Ballots For Bernie . They are extremely informed on the law , they had to learn it all because Bernie abandoned the state and left it to us . I was a vote monitor in my county . There are laws upon laws in each county of what you can see and not see , where you are allowed to be during each aspect of the recount . You might want to ask them to do an AMA on how they organized and what they learned . There are documents that need to be submitted .