A Question of Priority --How to Sustain the Reliability of the Patenting System

摘要

@@ The need for scientists to establish priority for their discoveries is fundamental, but how they do it changes with the years. In the seventeenth century,scientists encrypted① their results in anagrams② embedded in clearly dated letters sent to colleagues. When Galileo discovered the phases of Venus, he created a Latin anagram whose solution translates as: "The mother of love mimics the Moon's shapes".