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A case for intellectual property rights

Michele Boldrin and David Levine: Review of against intellectual monopoly. Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. viii+298, ISBN: 978-0-521-87928-6

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  1. The courts too apparently disagree with this idea: in Fishman v. Estate of Wirtz (1986) the Seventh Circuit explicitly stated that "[a] patent is not a natural monopoly.”

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Spinello, R.A. A case for intellectual property rights. Ethics Inf Technol 13, 277–281 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-011-9267-5

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