"I'm not sure anyone would ever claim that patents are morally justified." Objectivists do that: Rand argued that limited intellectual property monopolies bei

"I'm not sure anyone would ever claim that patents are morally justified." Objectivists do that: Rand argued that limited intellectual property monopolies being granted to certain inventors and artists on a first-to-file basis as moral because she viewed all property as fundamentally intellectual. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29#Politics:_individual_rights_and_capitalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29#Poli...