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The Sewing Machine War
lousyd writes "Volokh has hosted a paper by George Mason University law professor Adam Mossoff on the patent fracas a century and a half ago surrounding the sewing machine. A Stitch in Time: The Rise and Fall of the Sewing Machine Patent Thicket challenges assumptions by courts and scholars today about the alleged efficiency-choking complexities of the modern patent system. Mossoff says that complementary inventions, extensive patent litigation, so-called 'patent trolls,' patent thickets, and privately formed patent pools have long been features of the American patent system reaching back to the antebellum era."
When it comes to patents in the textile industry, you reap what you sew!
Be relentless!
2 possible conclusions:
1) Don't get your knickers in a twist over patents. The US has managed just fine.
2) Sewing machine patents caused the Civil War!
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
covered before. an evil sewing machine is sent back in time to destroy the human resistance led by john conner, head of a local stitch'n'bitch in rural california.
or ive proudly avoided RTFA oncemore.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I think you mean "The War of Northern Aggression," deah suh.
Funny, we've always referred to it as the well justifies ass-whupin :-)
Times are tough. It's hard to find a job. I don't buy the "Mexican's are stealing jobs" argument. But I'll be damned if I'm going to tolerate weasels putting on business suits and stealing jobs from humans!
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these--Paul Harvey
one of my ancient relatives married that General that burned Atlanta .. Now my daughter lives in Atlanta . i keep threatening her that i will tell her friends that .
"I don't pitch OpenSUSE Linux to my friends, i let Microsoft do it for me
I thought maybe you were using a definition of digital music sufficiently broad to encompass player piano rolls.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.