A renewed attention to the past

‘A book may be good for nothing; or there may be onlyone thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?’(Samuel Johnson) This section is dedicated to the review of ideas, articles,books, films and other media. It will include replies (and rejoinders)to articles, the evaluation of new ideas or proposals, and reviewsof books and articles both directly and indirectly related tointellectual property law. Conventional wisdom states that the main objective of patentregimes is to support industrial innovation. This suggestion,which forms the core legitimacy behind their being, is controversial.First, the actual connection between those regimes and industrialinnovation raises doubts in practice. Second,