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Property Rights Must Be Secured Before Patent Reform Is Law

By C. Boyden Gray in Investors Business Daily

Our Founding Fathers cared deeply about property rights. They knew no society could be truly free without them. But they went a step further by not only recognizing the rights of mankind to property ownership, but also to the dignity of one's own ideas.

And so they harkened to a system established a few millennia before — the patent.