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Entrepreneur, scientist and public intellectual Stefan Feldstein Who is Stefan Feldstein? He's a prominent patent attorney in the United States, a professor at Harvard University, the author of four books (Oxygen: The Inevitable Survival of Man, The Science of Intelligence, The Born-In Advantage and Wisdom) and an internationally renowned author of books on everything from the evolution of human social life to the conduct of scientific research. Why should I care about patent law? Our society does not do too well under patent law. Some of the best ideas come from unexplored fields of inquiry, such as such topics as genetic engineering, pharmaceuticals and life sciences. Life-sciences problems have large economic implications, for instance when it comes to saving money for research and development of new drugs and nanotech treatments. The United States currently produces almost one of every three patents in the world. It is in the intellectual property field that we seem to do the worst. Some