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Consider a Spherical Patent
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Consider a Spherical Patent

by Joseph E. Gortych
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
267 pages
10h 39m
English
CRC Press
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Chapter 9
PATENT SYSTEM
OPERATIONAL REALITY
9.1 EXISTENTIAL REASONS
FOR PATENTING
To understand at the most fundamental level why technology businesses seek
patents, we rst have to understand why technology businesses exist in the
rstplace. ey exist to make a prot for their shareholders. ey do not exist
so that people can have jobs or have fun at work. Technology businesses are all
about making money and, more specically, are all about making a prot; even
more specically, they are all about maximizing that prot.
To this end, well-run companies implement recognized best practices and proce-
dures in as many aspects of their busine ...
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