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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Or the fact that competition is being sued.
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But that's the purpose of patents: to prevent one company spending a shed-load of money on R&D, and someone else coming along and duplicating the product without the overhead of the R&D. Perhaps that's what's happened here, or perhaps it isn't - that's for the court to decide - but the product almost certainly wouldn't exist at all were it not for the protection offered by patents.