All this nonsense about how Nidek, LaserSight, and others will
undermine the per-procedure fee by charging, perhaps, NO fees
(MrGeneral on Yahoo board) misses one important fact: The only way
for the manufacturer/patent holder to make money is to charge fees
for use. It's a cost of doing business for the centers. ALL
manufacturers will charge procedure royalties in U.S. and Japan, the
two biggest markets in the world in the near-term. Nidek,
Autonomous, Visx, everyone. People need to quit fantasizing about
the end of procedure fees. It won't happen in the major markets.
And these lawsuits are just last-ditch effort money-grabs by people
with nothing to lose. Besides, Summit and Visx are "deep-pockets"
now, and all this FTC nonsense is giving these yahoo's the green
light to stomp on the lawsuit accelerator while time is still ripe.
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