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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: johnzhang who wrote (12347)12/8/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank  Read Replies (4) of 54805
 
>> Since Excimer laser itself is not an invention of Visx and commercially available, there's nothing to block competitive from entering the laser vision correction field once the patent claim is invalid.

I presume competitors would still have to get fda approval for their systems, even if the visx patents aren't upheld. From what I've seen that represents a significant barrier to entry in terms of time to market.

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