An Economic Review of the Patent System

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07/20/2005 Articles of Interest Fritz Machlup

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Study commission by the Subcommitttee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, 85th Congress, second session. Washington, D.C., 1958.

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