posted by devonwhittle on Aug 10, 2008
More problems with patents
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More on the issues surrounding intellectual property from James Surowiecki in The New Yorker. In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the dozens of companies—including one owned by Orville Wright—that held patents on the various components that made a plane go.
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