Posts Tagged: "Phil Hartst"

Sadly, what seemed so evident to Abraham Lincoln is now all but lost on many elected officials. For over 200 years the U.S. patent system stoked the fire of creative genius by enticing creative persons to innovate by giving them incentive to do so in the form of a patent. Increasingly over the last 10 years the U.S. patent system has chipped away at that incentive. How far rights can be eroded without completely compromising the entire system is a question we shouldn’t have to ponder, but these are not ordinary times.