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34 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 877 (2018-2019)
Patent Abolition: A Real-Life Historical Case Study

handle is hein.journals/amuilr34 and id is 943 raw text is: PATENT ABOLITION: A REAL-LIFE HISTORICAL CASE STUDY STEF VAN GOMPEL* I. IN TR O D U C TIO N .......................................................... 878 II. A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH PATENT LEGISLATION ................................ 882 III. THE PATENT ACT OF 1817 AND ITS D E F IC IE N C IE S ............................................................. 883 IV. CALLS FOR PATENT REFORM .................................. 890 A . INDUSTRY REPORTS ................................................... 891 B . A CADEM IC D EBATE ................................................... 895 V. POLITICAL RESPONSE AND THE ADOPTION OF THE PATENT ABOLITION ACT .......................................... 902 VI. MOTIVATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS BEHIND THE ADOPTION OF THE PATENT ABOLITION A C T ................................................................................ 9 0 8 A . LEGAL ARGUM ENTS ................................................... 908 B. ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS ............................................ 911 C. PRACTICAL ARGUMENTS ............................................ 915 D . POLITICAL ARGUMENTS ............................................. 917 V II. C O N C L U SIO N ............................................................. 919 * Stef J. van Gompel (LL.M. Amsterdam, LL.D. Amsterdam) is assistant professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam. The research for this paper was conducted in the framework of the research programme Veni with project number 451-14-033 (The challenge of evidence-based intellectual property law reform: Legal pragmatism meets doctrinal legal reasoning), which is partly financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The author thanks Kara Swanson and the participants of the 8th Annual ISHTIP Workshop on Intellectual Property and Resistance at CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK for valuable comments.

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