Patents.

[Tom Trottier]

What would happen if there were no patents?

Would there be as many clinical trials of drugs and applications for 
approval?

Would significant improvements in technology be complicated by the need 
to obscure how they were achieved to preserve a market window?

Would inventions in manufacturing processes rather than customer use be 
invested in?

Would marketeers have much more success selling stuff than innovators?

Would almost-inventions be carried through to completion and sale?

What would happen
	- immediately
	- in 10 years
	- 100 years?

tOM
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