Abstract
When the history of the American patent system is written, and to date that history has hardly been explored, it will almost certainly engage two central themes.' The first will consider the patent system as public policy. Patents, like tariffs, corporate charters, land grants, powers of eminent domain, and limitations on investor liability, constitute grants of privilege by government to private individuals in the name of the public good.2 The functions and ramifications of these
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