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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8674)	8/29/2006 7:41:20 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217668

re: NOK owes QCOM big time -- says QCOM ---------- ... says QCOM. QUESTION: What are (especially US) patents worth in a world where: ... globalization (read US global hegemony of resources and markets) is on the wane? ... the US patent enforcer is going broke? ... resource wars are on the wax? ... the US lacks internal (read energy) resources to power its empire and extort tribute from secondary powers and outlying regions? ... where US creditors (those governments owning its depreciating treasuries) have interests contrary to US vested interests? ANSWER: US patents are worth precisely the same as one of these: ---------- postscript: once upon a time, my liquid worth was entirely in 1 asset - the Q