“While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.”
(Robert H. Jackson, The Struggle Against Monopoly)
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“Now, patents are not monopolies, as the counsel have all said, because a monopoly is that which segregates that which was common before, and gives it to one person or to a class, for use or profit; a patent is that which brings out from the realm of mind something that never existed before, and gives it to the country. And when we consider the priceless blessings which have accrued to our land, by the intellect and ingenuity of the country in this department, we feel almost lost in wonder at the vastness of the interests which have been created by the ingenuity of the country, and the immense amount now invested, in this department of property.”
(Singer v. Walmsley, 22 F. Cas. 207 (C.C. Md. 1860) (No. 12,900))
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“The final cause of law is the welfare of society.”
(Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process)
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