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The complete course textbook for 6.901/6.931, Create or Perish, by Dr. Robert Rines, is provided below. This version of the text originally appeared as part of course 6.931 Development of Inventions and Creative Ideas, Spring 2008.

Create or Perish as one file (PDF - 3.2 MB)


CHAPTERSTopics
Cover and introduction (PDF)
1The origin and development of the American patent system (PDF)
2The role of the patent office and the courts (PDF)
3The patent law (PDF)
4Patents in action (history of the basic telephone patent) (PDF)
5The rights, obligations, and problems of inventors (employee-employer relations) (PDF)
6The future of American patents (PDF)
7The modernization of patent systems (PDF)
8Court modernization for aiding the patent system and the law, in general (PDF)
9A formula for economic decline (PDF)
Index (PDF)

 








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