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abecedarius on July 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync

If you go back the right number of centuries, the original intent was for a revenue source for the Crown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law#England

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