Love/Hate the Patent System

With the U.S. patent office in a kerfuffle — backlogs are soaring and the patent office chief just quit — here is a nice graphic of how the patent office has shaped U.S. history (for better and worse). Click to mess around with the timeline and to see it in larger form.

[via JSOnline]

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