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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (20483)	3/28/2007 11:16:13 AM
From: waitwatchwander	Respond to of 46821

Timing means a lot. My point was that there is so little time to absorb the complex changes of today that it has become easier to spin your way around innovation rather than actually create a better mousetrap. Similar dotted lines are good and should be promoted. If marketable, those reduce cost. Microsoft's "Perfect Game" has shown us the other side of patent innovation and spin-to-win. Dominance through market promotion, but we may not want to travel down that road. There are alternatives to patenting and it is most likely that cultivation of those "natural outgrowths" may well be the way to move bridging of the invention/productivity gap forward. Wasn't the Microsoft Way an '80s alternative? What are the 21st century alternatives? I suspect Irwin Jacobs is wandering that byway.