From: Bernie Reilly <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:47:28 +0000 Via NPR, an interesting popular take on the current world of US patents and patenting activity. It may interest aficionados of the economics of intellectual property. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/blog/2012/01/when-patents-attack-infographic And a fascinating use of infographics. Bernie Reilly President The Center for Research Libraries www.crl.edu voice: (773) 955-4545 ext 334 fax: (773) 955-4337 cell: (708) 837-0796 ************ Founded in 1949, the Center for Research Libraries is a consortium of over 250 academic and independent research libraries in the U.S., Canada and Hong Kong. CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars the primary source materials critical to those disciplines.