Fritz Machlup's ECONOMIC REVIEW OF THE PATENT SYSTEM. STUDY NO. 15. is also available as a committee print (SUDOCS# Y4.J89/2:P27/3/no.15) and is available on microfiche from CIS (#S0427).
Wilson T. PLUNKETT
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>In addition to the sources already cited, you might have your student
>track down the classic Fritz Machlup study, done originally for a
>Congressional committee, I believe, on the patent system. As I
>remember the paper (which I believe was published in the Journal of the
>Patent Office Society), it concludes that it would be irresponsible to
>create a patent system if one didn't already exist, but that having
>one, it would be irresponsible to repeal it. During the 19th century
>
>Pamela Samuelson
>University of Pittsburgh Law School
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