As I noted in The Morality of Acquiring and Enforcing Patents, law professor Michael Davis (RIP), who also was a registered patent attorney, opposed the patent system (for leftist reasons, I believe, unlike my own pro-property, libertarian reasons). He wrote an interesting article, Patent Politics. I mention him in The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright.
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