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Once more into the breach....
I.P. is not real property. It is not perpetual, nor is it property is the purest sense. It never has been. It is a government granted, wasting, monopoly. All the way back to the Stature of Anne (1714), it has been defines as a wasting monopoly. It has been consider in the public good for the monopoly to waste, as generically monopolies are bad things. It was granted to encourage more production of I.P. (Using a bad thing to encourage more of a good thing.) It is the same for (almost) any I.P. (Trademarks die when they are no longer used after a period of time.) It is not property being seized, it never existed as property proper. (it's definition is separate from property in the US constitution.)
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