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What is the main purpose of the patent system?

To encourage inventors with limited-term rights.

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  1. To encourage inventors with limited-term rights ✔
  2. To keep all inventions secret forever
  3. To fund museums about inventors

Why: Patents were established to encourage inventors by granting a limited-term, limited monopoly on qualifying inventions.

Huh, didn't know that: Patents were established to encourage inventors by granting a limited-term, limited monopoly on qualifying inventions.

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Answer: To encourage inventors with limited-term rights. Patents were established to encourage inventors by granting a limited-term, limited monopoly on qualifying inventions.

  1. Invention en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention
    The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term, limited monopoly
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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