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Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.
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TIIP is Up
The latest issue of Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property is hot off the blogs - and very depressing reading it is too. Bad patents drive out the good, costing the economy billions; patents in software make it hard for new firms to enter the market and to get financing. One good bit of news: James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer's new book Patent Failure: How Judges, Lawyers and Bureaucrats Put Innovators at Risk appears in the bookstores this month.
[Posted at 02/25/2008 06:55 AM by David K. Levine on IP in the News 
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"Bad patents drive out the good"
Eh. I thought your beliefs lay more in the direction of "the only good patent is a dead patent"? :)
[Comment at 02/25/2008 07:03 AM by None of your business]
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