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The first and true inventor

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Willam Rosen’s book The Most Powerful Idea in the World had an interesting chapter on the origins of patent law.

The first and true inventor The Roots of Progress About the blog • Writing • Speaking • Bibliography • Subscribe • Roots of Progress Institute The first and true inventor by Jason Crawford · January 20, 2018 · 3 min read Willam Rosen’s book The Most Powerful Idea in the World had an interesting chapter on the origins of patent law. I might have surmised that before patent law, inventors had no way of obtaining exclusive privileges to their inventions. But in fact, monopolies of this kind were granted to inventors and craftsmen going back thousands of years. Modern patent la

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