>> Interesting. I thought the whole point of a patent is to financially
>> cripple your opponents so you then have the whole market to yourself and
>> can then charge extortionate prices for a poor quality product...
>>
> 
> If you want the market to be created, you'll need to sell those
> licenses. That's eg. how Sony messed up with Minidisc - they kept MD too
> long for just themselves and the prices high, so that CD-R's (and later
> MP3 -players) went ahead.

Depends on the product. There's only one company that makes Viagra, and 
last I heard they're doing pretty damned well...

I would have thought some company would come up with the idea for a 
cellphone, patent it, and have the entire world market to themselves, 
keeping it too expensive for anybody anywhere to ever use. I'm puzzled 
as to how this didn't happen. That's what patents are for, after all.

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