Levine & Boldrin: The patent system: End it, don’t mend it

“The patent system: End it, don’t mend it“–“From AIDS to Android phones, research shows that intellectual property rights are detrimental to the social good.” Superb, concise piece in The Christian Science Monitor, by David K. Levine and Michele Boldrin, authors of Against Intellectual Monopoly. It is common to argue that intellectual property (IP) in the […]