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Richard S. Gruner

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The World As Our Technologist: Visualizing Worldwide Sources Of Technologies Patented In The United States, Richard S. Gruner Mar 2013

The World As Our Technologist: Visualizing Worldwide Sources Of Technologies Patented In The United States, Richard S. Gruner

Richard S. Gruner

The World as Our Technologist: Visualizing Worldwide Sources

of Technologies Patented in the United States

by

Richard Gruner

Emeritus Professor of Law

John Marshall Law School

ABSTRACT

Patent rewards in the United States incentivize and attract the overseas development of many new technologies used in this country. The United States – as the world’s largest economy – is the primary driver of technology development worldwide. The strength of United States patent laws, court systems, and civil law enforcement processes ensure that parties who produce new inventions of commercial value and who patent and popularize the inventions in the United States …