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7:09 PM How Patents Hinder Innovation | |
 Patents may have been created to help encourage innovation, but instead they regularly hinder it. The US Patent Office, overwhelmed and underfunded, issues questionable patents every day. "Patent trolls” buy too many of these patents and then misuse the patent system to shake down companies big and small. Others still use patents to limit competition and impede an access to new knowledge, tools or other innovations. Read full text here. | |
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