美国第三任总统、《独立宣言》主要起草人杰菲逊认为,获得知识应该没有障碍,没有人可将知识据为已有。但美国目前提供的专利保护范围太广,时间太长,实际上不利于发明创造。 托马斯·杰菲逊(Thomas Jefferson)说:“如果大自然使任何一件东西变得比所有其他东西较少具有独占性质,这是被称为构想的思考力量的作用……没有人占有一件东西的较少部分,因为其他每一个人都占有这件东西的全部。从我这儿获得构想的人,在他自己获得启示的同时,并没有减少我的构 Jefferson, the third president of the United States and the main drafters of the Declaration of Independence, believes there should be no obstacles to access to knowledge and no one can claim knowledge as it is. However, the scope of patent protection currently provided by the United States is too broad and too long, which is actually detrimental to invention and creation. Thomas Jefferson said: "If nature makes any one thing less exclusive than all other things, it’s what it calls the thinking power of ideas ... no one owns one The lesser part of the thing, for every one of them possesses all of this thing, and the one who has obtained the idea from me, at his own own revelation, does not diminish my structure