Revising the “Original” Patent Clause: Pseudohistory in the Constitutional Construction

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Revising the “Original” Patent Clause: Pseudohistory in the Constitutional Construction

Cite

2 HARV. J.L. & TECH. 155

Year

1989

Bluebook cite

Kenneth J. Burchfiel, Revising the “Original” Patent Clause: Pseudohistory in the Constitutional Construction, 2 HARV. J.L. & TECH. 155, 166 (1989).

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Kenneth J. Burchfiel

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article

Summary

Noting Thomas Jefferson's suggestions at the Constitutional Convention to 1) prohibit all monopolies, "even those for a limited term intended to stimulate 'ingenuity,'" and 2) permit limited monopolies "for literary productions and inventions." 166.

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