[Ip-health] FDR on compulsory licensing and patent pools

[robert weissman]

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=15637

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Message to Congress on Curbing Monopolies.
April 29th, 1938

[snip]

(5) Patent laws. Amendment of the patent laws to prevent their use to
suppress inventions, and to create industrial monopolies. Of course such
amendment should not deprive the inventor of his royalty rights, but
generally speaking, future patents might be made available for use by
any one upon payment of appropriate royalties. Open patent pools have
voluntarily been put into effect in a number of important industries
with wholesome results.

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