TY - GEN T1 - 150 years of patent protection / AU - Lerner, Josh, N1 - This article was downloaded and printed from the RePEc online archive. It was published in January 2000 as Working Paper 7478 in the NBER Working Paper Series. see also www.nber.org/papers/w7478. ID - 13563 KW - Patents KW - PATENTS : HISTORY KW - PATENT PROTECTION KW - PATENT SYSTEM : UNITED STATES TI - 150 years of patent protection / ER -