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DURING the past few years, there have been many allegations that monopoly rights created by patents for inventions are being used contrary to the public interest by large industrial corporations. One suggestion which has been mooted in Great Britain for rectifying this alleged abuse is that each patent shall be granted subject to the condition that any person may obtain a licence to work the invention on terms to be agreed with the patentee or, in case of disagreement, to be settled by the Comptroller-General of Patents. This suggestion, in its original form, has not met with general acceptance, and a modification of it is put forward by Prof. M. Polanyi in a pamphlet reprinted from the Review of Economic Studies, entitled "Patent Reform: a Plan for Encouraging the Application of Inventions".
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Reform of the Patent Law in Britain. Nature 155, 612–613 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155612b0
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