LABOR–DESERT MODEL

By SovConn | September 18, 2013

labor–desert model.The view that the inventive process results from the inventor’s labor to create something of added value to society, and that this added value justifies some social reward (“just deserts”) to the inventor. — Also termed value-added model. Cf. EUREKA MODEL; LABOR MODEL.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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