Re:Startup Lessons
by mattmaroon on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @03:24PM
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I think the innovations we've seen over the last 100 years of our current system would be proof that you're wrong. American inventors have made huge leaps and bounds in every area in which innovation is possible. I don't see how it's possible to look at the last century and say our patent system is anything but amazing.
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There is no way to to look at America over the last hundred years without the patent system, or better yet, with a more functional system. So those innovations, while great, are not proof of anything.
I would contend the system did not start going off the rails until more recently, anyhow.