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fascinating!
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Agreed, provided this can also apply to a game-changing businesses, rather than just offshoots of others' frameworks such as iphone app market or facebook app or some such. Anywhere where scale is important, this is going to be difficult and there needs to be an investment at some point…
- Author: Adriana
- Published: Sep 6th, 2010
- Category: Reading & Bookmarks
- Comments: 1
alan p
on Sep 7th, 2010
@ 0:05 am:
The killer lines on the Edison one are these:
For the cartel, “costs of pursuing infringers must have been more than any court-ordered repayment,” Staigler notes. “For the independents, fines for patent violation were less than profits from filmmaking.”
i.e. the economics favoured busting the cartel despite the cosr of patent infrigement.