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Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Sondre Bjellås
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sondre-list@bjellas.com"><sondre-list@bjellas.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Says who and what? Does it apply to all engineering fields?
Quick Google search gives me:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://techrights.org/2009/07/11/study-shows-patents-stifle-innovation/">http://techrights.org/2009/07/11/study-shows-patents-stifle-innovation/</a>
" It’s extraordinary how the myth that patents somehow promote innovation is
still propagated and widely accepted; and yet there is practically *no*
empirical evidence that it’s true. All the studies that have looked at this
area rigorously come to quite a different conclusion."
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### That's the problem with a quick search - you can find a document
in support of virtually any opinion that has ever been articulated by
humankind.
Now, give me a direct link to a preferably peer-reviewed publication
on the subject of efficiency of patent law, and we could have a
discussion.
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What exactly would be valid measurements of or criteria for this
"efficiency"? What kinds of peers in what areas? <br>
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- s<br>
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