Proprietary ethics. Patent pursuits evoke calls for limits on commercial ventures.
Despite America's claim as the champion of capitalism, there does seem to be some ingrained sense of boundaries beyond which making money is viewed as not fair or proper. The following stories look at two very different cases in which the patent process came under attack for very different ethical reasons.
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