The Drawing Room

The problem with patents


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What do polymer bank notes, the electric drill and Zinc sunscreen all have in common?

They were all inventions with patents written in Australia. And while these became highly successful, not all patents are. 

‘IP Provocations’ is a new podcast exploring whether patents are facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation as they were designed to do or whether they’re in fact inhibiting it.

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