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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (134956)	7/23/2004 5:07:49 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 152472

This nightmare scenario you posit will never happen, Mq., for a very simple reason, i.e., patents create a legally protected monopoly that the country in which the inventor resides will protect domestically and internationally. The US increasingly depends on innovation and creativity not brute labor or the manufacturing of cheap trinkets to keep its economy going. Any government idiotic enough to prevent an inventor from enjoying the fruits of his labor for a decent period time will stifle innovation and creativity. No wonderful life saving drugs will be invented, no code divided multiplex accessed pixels will fly, no wonderful tiny this and tiny that will be invented. You get the picture. The advanced Western and Asian economies increasingly depend on innovation to grow; any third world country that tries to horn in on this by ignoring patents, pirating stuff, or not paying royalties will be cut off at the knees. As far as your bundling concerns, Q simply puts a very high price on each patent. A very high price, then discounts for volume. What's wrong with that?

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