On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 11:45:32 +0100
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> The reason patents were introduced for was getting more money for the king.

No, they were introduced to guarantee the inventor the exclusivity of his invention for a certain time, so he alone could profit from it during that time.

Introduced to make research economically viable.

Cheers,

Ron.
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