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17.11.04

Intellectual Property

Outside the realm of the specialist lawyers who inhabit the world of copyright and patent, there is not a tremendous amount of public understanding of the crucial nature of these protections to the encouagement of invention. The tension with free interchange of ideas through the media is rising and so-called process patents invade areas hitherto unknown to even the patent bar. Here is a discussion from the Economist that is quite worthwhile. Economist.com

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