[p2p-research] Fwd: [LeftLibertarian2] Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts

[Kevin Carson]

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From: Bruce Hobbs
Date: Jul 21, 2009 11:56 AM
Subject: [LeftLibertarian2] Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts
To: LeftLibertarian2 at yahoogroups.com


Not that it would by any means be a surprise to folks on this list, but
 this paper
 <http://academiccommons.columbia.edu:8080/ac/bitstream/10022/AC:P:29800/1/STLR-Vol10-Torrance.pdf>
 discusses an on-line simulation of alternate patent systems (traditional,
 none and hybrid) which suggests that innovation, productivity and societal
 utility are greater when there is no patent protection.
 --
 "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without
 lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without
 darkening me."--Thomas Jefferson (inventor and first U.S. Patent Examiner),
 8/13/1813 letter to Isaac McPherson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vol.
 13, ed. A.A. Lipscomb and A.E. Bergh (Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson
 Memorial Association, 1904), pp. 326-38.


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