Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation


The Founders might have used quill pens, but they would roll their eyes at how, in this sup­pos­edly technology-​​minded era, we’re under­min­ing their inten­tion to encour­age inno­va­tion. The U.S. is stum­bling in the tran­si­tion from their Industrial Age to our Information Age, despite the charge in the Constitution that Congress “pro­mote the Progress of Science and use­ful Arts, by secur­ing for lim­ited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclu­sive Right to their respec­tive Writings and Discoveries.”

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