http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,665861,00.html Patents don't matter (much): Switzerland and the Netherlands had no patent system at all for the last half of the 19th Century, but companies still prospered. (I am not convinced.) 11:19
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,665861,00.html Patents don't matter (much): Switzerland and the Netherlands had no patent system at all for the last half of the 19th Century, but companies still prospered. (I am not convinced.) 11:19