For 200 years, the United States patent system has protected, enriched, and befuddled inventors. As a tool of corporate growth in a global economy, it is now more important than ever.
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For a century now, it has been a haven to some, an outrage to others, and it is one of the very few social institutions that have survived their founders’ world.
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Good luck and a determined woman save the lone photographic
record of a historic era in Vermont
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