SemiBull,
ON STEAG'S RESPONSE:
In my opinion, Johannes B. of Steag admitted that the company was basically up against a wall after this ruling when he 'went macro' -- talking about how this ruling hurts all US IC, wafer and disk manufacturers (for you plaintiff attorneys, don't get any ideas about forming a class ... though I have used multiple parties and the word "hurts" in one sentence).
That is always a clumsy defense. Every US consumer would benefit if every market from which they bought was perfectly competitive (and, you could argue that, without IP, a bunch of markets would regress/gravitate toward that state).
Unfortunately, capitalism could never flourish in such a system; allocating capital would be almost a wasted exercise. In the end, what would one consume and with what would he pay?
I can not say whether he was quoted properly or out-of-context, but it does sound a bit desperate.
"... but, every now and then we do get desperate." [Boston Garden/Cobo Hall, Detroit, November 1975 -- P.Wolf, T.J.G.B.]
--Duker |
