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Dan
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Great overview of the history of patents - born in Venice in 1474 - Thomas Jefferson was the first patent examiner - evidence suggests patents help incentivize capital formation/investment - patent trolls are bad and the area most in need of reform https://blog.withedge.com/p/why-patents-history-progress-innovation
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Dan
@dberg
Another interesting tidbit: for certain classes of inventions the Venetians relied on trade secrets + assassins to punish misappropriators.
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