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Our Founding Fathers understood the need for innovative thinking and wrote into the Constitution a means of encouraging invention--the patent system-which has enormously stimulated our progress and prosperity.

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Special Message to the Congress Proposing Patent Modernization and Reform Legislation

09/26/1973

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