The Unconstitutional Highway - on the 'Forgotten Half of the Patent Clause' with Roleigh Martin

The Unconstitutional Highway - on the 'Forgotten Half of the Patent Clause' with Roleigh Martin

June 13, 2026 · 1h 30m · Season 4 · Episode 9

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The episode features an in-depth discussion with Roleigh Martin about the implications of the 'Forgotten Half of the Patent Clause' on the economy and market competition.

Voice Of GO(r)D is very happy to bring you an in depth discussion with Roleigh Martin, a lifelong data systems analyst and inventor, who has written an as yet unpublished book which will be of great interest to many of my listeners. ”The Forgotten Half of The Patent Clause” advertises itself as a ‘constitutional law litigation strategy and a citizen’s playbook’ and Mr Martin joins the show to explain his thesis on how two words in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, ‘limited Times’, have been left out of the equation within the only monopoly the Constitution grants, patents for new products. With time limitations being abandoned in the understanding and execution of patent law, Roleigh explains that 58% of our economy are effectively protected from the free market competition that the founders had envisioned for America when they wrote the Constitution . Amongst that 58% includes the manufacture of cars, trucks, and other types of equipment, and a series of past judicial rulings has vaporized the market for remanufacture of patent expired equipment which should, constitutionally, pass into the public domain. This situation is, in part, why we see the prices of cars and…

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Host: Gord Magill

Guest: Roleigh Martin

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Books & works: The Forgotten Half of The Patent Clause

Places: America, Constitution

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