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Patents also preserve knowledge in publicly accessible and well documented form. Without patents the only option to recoup investment in R&D would be to make innovations a trade secrets. This will lead to frequent reinvention of the wheel and lost knowledge.

The system is broken, but abolishing it is even worse




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