From poiqwe@excite.com  Fri Apr 13 23:09:39 2001
From: poiqwe@excite.com (Erik Josefsson)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:09:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Patents] historically abolished patent systems
Message-ID: <6055251.987199779090.JavaMail.imail@tiptoe>

Hi,

I came across the following facts:
Switzerland and the Netherlands abolished their patent systems
in, respectively, 1850-1907 and 1869-1912.
My source doesn't tell why.

Does anybody know?

//Erik





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