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13Patents and Human Rights: A Heterodox AnalysisJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (1): 185-198. 2013.Patents and free trade make strange bedfellows. For most of their history, patents have been instruments deployed to resist trade with other countries, not to enhance it. Whether one looks at Venetian laws that punished citizens who practiced local crafts outside the city, the Mercantilist uses to which patents were put in Elizabethan England, or the cartels of the 19th and 20th centuries created on a foundation of interlocking patent rights, patents have had a distinctly protectionist function.…Read more
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24The unexamined assumptions of intellectual propertyPublic Affairs Quarterly 18 (4): 299-344. 2004.
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