I have yet to see reasonable evidence that could be viewed to be reasonably convincing that Patents worked.

In the link I provided, it seems Mr. Jefferson acknowledged the amount of inventions which were disclosed which would otherwise not have been disclosed.

However, it appears he was still of the opinion that Patents should be granted cautiously instead of generously.

a patent wouldn't [be] given when it was just an old invention built with a different material

He was angered by the considerable number of "frivolous" patents that the office received petitions for

Of course, that assumes that he would view what's being granted today in the same grouping as the frivolous patent filings of his time.

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• Patents have never worked - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 08:02 AM EDT