To Promote The Progress Of Useful Arts : American Patent Law And Administration, 1798-1836

Name: To Promote The Progress Of Useful Arts : American Patent Law And Administration, 1798-1836
Cite: To Promote The Progress Of Useful Arts : American Patent Law And Administration, 1798-1836, Littleton, Colo. : F.B. Rothman, 1998.
Year: 1998
Bluebook cite: Edward C. Walterscheid, To Promote The Progress Of Useful Arts : American Patent Law And Administration, 1798-1836, Littleton, Colo. : F.B. Rothman, 1998, xii, 516; 25 cm.
Author: Edward C. Walterscheid
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Summary: Describing how the Founders were anti-monopolies, and that patents are essentially monopolies (though limited in duration); therefore, patents are an exception to the general ban on monopolies. 37. Thus, if the Founders intended to give Congress the power to issue patents (i.e. exclusive rights to inventors for their inventions, for limited times), the power would need to be given expressly. Id. Jefferson's anti-monopoly rationale and discussion may be found at 55.

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