Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?

Petra Moser & Paul W. Rhode
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Copyright 2012
ISBN 978-0-226-47303-1
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
Book: The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
Book editors: Josh Lerner & Scott Stern
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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