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Patents and bonuses
March 29, 2006

Today's Wall Street Journal ($$$) has an interesting take on the patent problem: Patent examiners earn bonuses based in part on the number of files they close in a year, and the easiest way to close a file for good is to grant the patent it pertains to.


Posted by Rick Nelson on March 29, 2006 | Comments (0)



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