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A government backed monolopy granted to inventors to exploit an invention. Supposedly short-lived in nature the idea was that patents would encourage inovation.

Modern patients are normally held by large organisations, such as IBM and RedHat.

See: IntellectualProperty, SoftwarePatent, CopyRight

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