IBM / Kodak / General Electric / Fuji Photo Film Company / Xerox / Oracle Corporation / Polaroid / Du Pont / 3Com / Panip IP LLC / Microsoft / federal government / /
Continent
Europe / Africa / /
Country
United States / Canada / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Bankruptcy / Legal Issues / Man-Made Disaster / /
IndustryTerm
interwar chemical / metal / software industries / legal and bargaining tool / pharmaceuticals / biotechnology / complicated software product / antitrust law / pharmaceutical research / software innovator / large pharmaceutical / computer software / software components / patent law / software industry / software writing techniques / crummy products / telephone line / legal product / crippled products / software developer / good tools / /
Organization
federal government / US Patent Office / European Union / Department of Justice / American Bar Association / International Trade Commission / /
Person
Roger Smith / Jerry Baker / /
Position
Vice President / software developer / engineers and patent counsel / entrepreneur / halfway competent lawyer / /
Boldrin & Levine: Against Intellectual Monopoly, Chapter 4 Chapter 4. The Evil of Intellectual Monopoly We hope by now to have convinced at least a few among you that there has been, there is, and there would be plentif