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To: SoothingDave

“Patents are necessary.”

And absolutely useless when you are dealing with people in countries with governments that won’t actively prosecute infringement cases.


23 posted on 05/08/2007 10:45:02 AM PDT by EEDUDE (The more I know, the less I understand...)
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To: EEDUDE
And absolutely useless when you are dealing with people in countries with governments that won’t actively prosecute infringement cases.

That's a problem for diplomats, not for businessmen. If faced with such recalcitrant gov'ts their only choice is to make some profit or make none.

I agree the US should make foreign lands pay their fair share of Pharma R&D costs. I don't agree with FReepers who want cheap stuff just because they think they deserve it. That's becoming no worse than the foreigners who blatantly steal others' intellectual property (or threaten to do so.)

26 posted on 05/08/2007 10:50:48 AM PDT by SoothingDave (She was a fishmonger)
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