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What does the patent system do for the economy?

Helps capture benefits so investment happens.

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  1. Helps capture benefits so investment happens ✔
  2. Stops all new ideas
  3. Removes all inventors

Why: The patent system captures positive externalities so the economy invests an optimum amount in invention.

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Patents help the economy patent itself.
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Answer: Helps capture benefits so investment happens. The patent system captures positive externalities so the economy invests an optimum amount in invention.

  1. Invention en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention
    The patent system captures those positive externalities for the inventor or other patent owner so that the economy as a whole invests an optimum amount of resources in the invention process.
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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