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Eric Maskin on Patents

16 Oct 2012

From a letter to the NYTimes: … in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones. If one of those steps is patentable, then the patent holder can effectively block (or at least slow down) subsequent progress by setting [...]
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Alex Tabarrok

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