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1Author:  Richardson, JamesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Our Patent-System, and What We Owe to It  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: We are a nation of inventors, and every invention is patented; yet, curiously, there is no subject quite so void of interest to the average gentle reader," as patents and patent-rights. Why, it is hard to say; for there is no factor of modern civilization that comes home to every one more constantly or more closely. Indeed, in their ubiquity and unresting action, patents have been aptly likened to the taxes which Sydney Smith described as following the overtaxed Englishmen of his day from the cradle to the grave. Does the comparison hold as well, as some assert, in respect to burdensomeness?
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