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The Trade War Against Patents

The Trade War Against Patents

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It is axiomatic that developing economies with little native innovation are patent violators, while developed, high-innovation economies are patent protectors. The United States followed just that pattern—George Washington urged Americans to steal British technology. So has China. Once a blatant patent violator, today, China as the world’s leader in new…

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