Since this is the July issue of Resource Recycling, I imagine you are busily reviewing its pages for new equipment or technologies that may be needed by your recycling operations. One common denominator these products probably all share is the use of patents to protect the intellectual property rights of the companies that manufacture them. The use of patents as a legal tool for encouraging technical innovation originated centuries earlier in Europe prior the establishment of the American republic. The usefulness of granting patents for that purpose was acknowledged by.the framers of the U.S. Constitution through its inclusion in Article 1, Section 8 as one of the powers granted to Congress.
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