Interesting article about “whether patents are an impediment to the industry, a necessary evil or just a high-visibility nuisance”. As a patent-lawyer friend said about this article, “It’s good that this is becoming a more mainstream public policy debate, but scary how ill informed and even illogical the debate is.” More pro-/con-IP resources and information.
Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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