Morning Consult Opinion: Assaulting Property Rights to One’s Inventions, by James Edwards
This post originally appeared in Morning Consult on November 30, 2016.
For a country with a momentous beginning, whose intellectual-property-rights approach produced the most iconic inventors and inventions in the world, recent changes to America’s patent system should be alarming.
Mark Twain wrote, “[A] country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab and couldn’t travel any way but sideways or backwards.”