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JEFFERSON AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
By Tobin Hobbs on March 16, 2010 - Comments(0)
As secretary of state, Jefferson ran our first American patent office. For him, its purpose was to promulgate inventions, not to protect them. He hated monopoly and was determined that the patent process shouldn't serve it. The peculiar character of an idea, said Jefferson, is that
"... no one possesses ...
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