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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (20482)3/28/2007 12:05:58 PM
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Yep, and the unfortunate truth is that patents often serve to protect the ineptness of the patent holder, at developing new markets around their invention. Developing a new market takes as much creative thinking and innovative hard work (arguably more), as the creation of some collection of "property rights" that new market might be based on.

Viewing it that way (and I know not everyone does), it seems equally unfair that a patent holder automatically gets the fruits of the market development efforts of another party (or even multiple parties), just by squatting on a technology or property right until the undeveloped swampland turns into Disneyworld.
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