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Monday, August 01, 2011

When Patents attack. The patent system is broken.

This is a excellent story about how the patent system is broken.
This American Life.  When Patents attack.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/26/138576167/when-patents-attack

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110725/03174515229/very-basis-our-patent-system-is-myth.shtml
Posted by John Sokol at 12:26 PM
Labels: government, laws, Patent

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