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Last week entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that his electric vehicle company would no longer enforce its patents. Historian of science Shobita Parthasarathy puts Musks gesture in the context of the current US patent system. If governments and their citizens want to stimulate innovation that is truly in the public’s interest, she writes, then we need to seriously reconsider the shape of our intellectual property systems. Simply abandoning patents might benefit Elon Musk, but the implications for the public are far more uncertain.
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:02:32 +0000

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