In my Against Intellectual Property article, I try to illustrate the absurdity of patents with an example of a caveman, Galt-Magnon, who builds the first log cabin and wants to stop others from doing so on the grounds that it’s his invention (pp. 32-33). Coincidentally, I just learned of a 1960s book, “The Evolution Man, or How I Ate My Father,” by Roy Lewis (book review), “which probably describes the first [fictional] murder for intellectual property… The father of a prehistoric horde of wannabe-humans invents fire making. While the father has an “open-source” concept of intellectual property, the son wants … Continue reading I’m just a caveman IP lawyer