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Buying R&DBuying R&DPosted Feb 26, 2009 18:31 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)In reply to: SCALE7x: Courts have new "teeth" to limit software patents by pboddie Parent article: SCALE7x: Courts have new "teeth" to limit software patents
Patents are an economic development program that the government uses to subsidize R&D in the private sector. You're right -- just looking at litigation costs isn't enough. You have to compare a patent program to other kinds of R&D incentives, such as prizes and grants.
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