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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (992)	4/25/2008 7:48:18 AM
From: Dexter Lives On	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1088

The USA had better protect intellectual property because that's the foundation of a great deal of USA wealth. Hi Maurice, FWIW, I agree with you. Seems to me these patent pools walk a very fine line between anticompetitive behavior and the age old practice of beating up suppliers. Beating up suppliers is fine and bigger companies are justified in doing everything within their legal means to get a lower variable price for their supplies (in this case IP rights). Fixing prices is a different story. When do patent pools cross that line? Presumably some aspects of their wish to provide transparent, reasonable costs for their own group's IPR will be beneficial to the end market and so are desirable for growth of the entire sector. In this particular case, is there any suggestion or evidence that they have gone beyond those objectives or do you simply think that outcome is inevitable? Cheers.