Re: The patent process

[Rahul Dhesi]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

>It has also been argued that one of the reasons why the US became the 
>source of so much technology development in the 19th and 20th centuries 
>is because of our patent system....

It has also been argued that the more productive and advanced an economy
gets, the stroger the pro-patent-system lobby becomes, and the stronger
the patent system gets.

The same is true of copyrights and trade marks.
-- 
Rahul