Patents were an instrument during the guild era that regulated how knowledge could pass from master artisans to their apprentices. For some reason, this brake on innovation and monopolization has survived into the free enterprise age, after 1850.
Many people have a lot of preconceptions about patents that aren’t true, just like a lot of …
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