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Sen. Snowe Delivers Address At USM Commencement
boston.com 2 weeks, 5 days agoU.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe says the political polarization in Washington can be diminished, but only when Americans support candidates who follow the principles of consensus-building.
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The Idea That Women Need More Patents, Copyrights And Trademarks Shows Up In Newly Proposed Law
techdirt.com 1 day, 15 hours agoLast month, we reported on some silly research that suggested the economy would grow massively if we could just convince women to get more patents. The whole thing was based on some fundamentally silly assumptions related to thinking that patents are a proxy for either innovation or economic growth. They are not. Plenty of studies have shown no link between patents and actual innovation -- and lots of other studies have shown that patents seem to be costing the economy a lot more than helping it. Unfortunat

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